lelek
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lelek m anim
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Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
lel (“to find”) + -ek (personal suffix)
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lelek
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lelьkъ.
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lelek m animal
- nightjar; any bird from the subfamily Caprimulginae
- Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus)
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Declension of lelek
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Etymology edit
Of imitative origin, possibly descending from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to howl, bark, lament”). See also German lullen, Ancient Greek λάλος (lálos), Albanian lule.[1]
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Noun edit
lȅlēk m (Cyrillic spelling ле̏ле̄к)
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Declension of lelek
References edit
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “650-51”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 650-51
Further reading edit
- “lelek” in Hrvatski jezični portal