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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Dialectal synonym of *věverica (“squirrel”), likely introduced to distinguish it from the European ground squirrel (in Slavic *sъsьlъ / *sysьlъ / *sujakъ). Formed as *kateriti (“to climb, to mount”) + *-ica, probably ultimately descending from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ket- (“to gush, to leap, to move around”), whence come Latin scatebra (“gush of water”) and Old Armenian շիթ (šitʻ, “jet, stream”).
Noun
*katerica f
- tree squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), one that climbs
- Synonyms: *věverica, *bělъka
Declension
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
Further reading
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “катерица”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 271