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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *màjati (“to beckon”) + *-akъ (“masculine nominalizing suffix”).
Noun
*majakъ m
- signalling post
- beacon
- lighthouse
Declension
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мая́к”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress