Slovak

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Etymology

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Formed from dialectal šúľ, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *šulo.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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šúľok m (diminutive šúľoček, related adjective šúľkový)

  1. (botany) spadix
  2. stick (any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance)

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “šúľok”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 598

Further reading

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  • šúľok”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024