пиявка
Russian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *pьjavъka. Cognate with Ukrainian п'я́вка (pʺjávka), Belarusian п'я́ўка (pʺjáŭka), Czech pijavka, Polish pijawka, Slovene pijavka.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
пия́вка • (pijávka) f anim (genitive пия́вки, nominative plural пия́вки, genitive plural пия́вок)
- leech (blood-sucking annelid)
Declension edit
Declension of пия́вка (anim fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Yiddish: פּיאַווקע (pyavke)
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пиявка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress