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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Most likely a compound of *gu- (“serpentile”) + *ščerъ with uncertain meaning of second element. See standard *aščerъ for further discussion.
Noun
*gùščerъ m[1]
- Alternative form of *aščerъ (“lizard”)
Inflection
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*guščerъ/*guščerica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 179
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гущер”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 297
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