See also: сојка and соиқа

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsojka]
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со́йка (sójkaf animal (genitive со́йкі, nominative plural со́йкі, genitive plural со́ек)

  1. jay (bird)

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Евразийска сойка
 
Синя сойка

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From Proto-Slavic *sojьka. Morphologically equivalent to со́а (sóa) (dialectal) +‎ -ка (-ka).

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со́йка (sójkaf

  1. jay (bird of genus Garrulus (for Old World jays) or Cyanocitta (for New World jays))

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  • сойка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • сойка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “сойка¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 286

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sojьka. By surface analysis, со́я (sója, jay (dialectal)) +‎ -ка (-ka). Cognate with Ukrainian со́я (sója), Belarusian со́я (sója), Bulgarian со́йка (sójka), Serbo-Croatian со̑јка, Slovene sȏjka (type of jackdaw) (tonal orthography), Czech sojka (jay), Slovak sojka (jay), Polish soja (also sójka), Upper Sorbian soja. Per Vasmer, presumably related to Russian сия́ть (sijátʹ, to shine), based on the colorful feathers.

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со́йка (sójkaf anim (genitive со́йки, nominative plural со́йки, genitive plural со́ек)

  1. Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сойка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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со́йка (sójkaf animal (genitive со́йки, nominative plural со́йки, genitive plural со́йок)

  1. jay (bird)

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