Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sǫdakъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

By surface analysis, *sǫd- +‎ *-akъ. Possibly from an earlier Pre-Slavic *sand-āk-; further etymology unknown. Perhaps a substrate word.

*sǫdakъ m^[1]

1. zander (Sander lucioperca); any fish of the genus Sander

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *сѫдакъ (*sǫdakŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: суда́къ (sudák)
      • Belarusian: суда́к (sudák)
      • Ukrainian: суда́к (sudák), (dialectal) суду́к (sudúk)
    • Middle Russian: суда́къ (sudák), судо́къ (sudók)
      • Russian: суда́к (sudák), (dialectal) судо́к (sudók)
        • → Tatar: судак (sudaq)
• South Slavic: (<^? *smǫď- < *sǫd-)
  • Bulgarian: смадо́к (smadók)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сму̑ђ, (dialectal) смуч, смуђарак, смудина

    Latin script: smȗđ, (dialectal) smuč, smuđarak, smudina

  • Slovene: smȗč, smug, smoj
  • →? Slovak: smud (“zander”)
• West Slavic:
  • >? Czech: (dialectal) sandát, sanítka
  • Slovincian: sãdzoc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: sandak
  • → Middle Low German: sandāt (see there for further descendants)

• Kolomijec, V. T. (1983) Происхождение общеславянских названий рыб (К IX Международному съезду славистов) (in Russian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, pages 113-117
• Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “суда́к”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “суда́к”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “суда́к”, in Етимологічний словник української мови (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 468
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “smȗč”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si