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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
*pīskàti + *-ořь. Note also that Slovak apparently more recently formed piskor to mean the “common shrew” and the “mouthpiece of a pipe”.
Noun
*piskořь m
- moray, lamprey, gudgeon, minnow or loach
Inflection
* 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
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Bezlaj, France (1995) Etimološki slovar slovenskega jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Slovenian Language] (in Slovene), volumes 3 (P – S), Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, →ISBN, page 43
- Kolomijec, V. T. (1983) Происхождение общеславянских названий рыб [The Origin of the Common Slavic Names of Fish] (К IX Международному съезду славистов) (in Russian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, pages 39-42, instead connecting to *pěsъkъ (“sand”), a connection elsewhere acknowledged secondary
- Mikkola, Jooseppi Julius (1902) “Объясненія нѣкоторыхъ славянскихъ словъ”, in Русскій филологическій вѣстникъ (in Russian), volume 48, numbers 3–4, pages 279–280
- Miklosich, Franz (1886) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 247b
- Snoj, Marko (2016) “piškur”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пискарь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress