pliska

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Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pliska.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /plʲiska/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /plʲiska/

Noun

pliska f

  1. white wagtail (small passerine bird in the wagtail family Motacillidae (Motacilla alba)
    • 1900 [1472], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2, number 1312:
      Plyska cauda tremula
      [Pliska cauda tremula]

Descendants

  • Polish: pliszka

References

  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “(pliszka) pliska”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pliska.

Pronunciation

Noun

plȉska f (Cyrillic spelling пли̏ска)

  1. wagtail, motacillid, especially a member of the genus Motacilla
    Synonym: pastirica

Declension

Further reading

  • pliska”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024