plávka

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Slovak

plávka azúrová
(Russula azurea)

Etymology

From plavý (blond, pale-yellow, fawn; (here in assumed meaning like in Serbo-Croatian:) bluish) +‎ -ka, from the bluish colour of the cap in some specimens.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

plávka f (diminutive plávočka)

  1. fungus belonging to the genus Russula

Declension

References

  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “plávka”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 445

Further reading

  • plávka”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025