пелюстка

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Ukrainian

 пелюстка on Ukrainian Wikipedia
Пелюстка в траві

Etymology 1

Possibly from unattested *пелістка (*pelistka), a metathesis of лепістка (lepistka), with its final form apparently influenced by the semantically close пелю́шка (peljúška).[1] Cognate with Russian лепесто́к (lepestók).

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Noun

пелю́стка (peljústkaf inan (genitive пелю́стки, nominative plural пелюстки́, genitive plural пелюсто́к)

  1. (botany) petal
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Etymology 2

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Noun

пелюстка́ (peljustkám inan

  1. genitive singular of пелюсто́к (peljustók)

References

  1. ^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “пелюстка”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

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