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Old Prussian
Etymology
From earlier *zukis or *zukas, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źū́ˀ- allegedly suffixed with *-ka-;[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰúHs. Cognate with Lithuanian žuvìs, Latvian zivs, Ancient Greek ἰχθύς (ikhthús).[2]
Noun
suckis
- fish
References
- ^ Mažiulis, Vytautas (1997) “suckis”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian] (in Lithuanian), volume IV, Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, page 167
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “žuvìs”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 523