жужелица

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

• жужелицꙗ (žuželicja), жюжелица (žjuželica)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic жужелица (žuželica), from Proto-Slavic *žuželica, from *žùžeľь.

Noun

жужелица • (žuželica) f animal

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Related terms

nouns

• жужела f (žužela)
• жужелїє n (žuželije)
• жужелка f (žuželka)
• жужель m (žuželʹ)

 

Descendants

• Belarusian: жужалі́ца (žužalíca) (obsolete)
• Ukrainian: жу́желиця (žúželycja)

Further reading

• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1932), “жужелиця; жужель”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, numbers 2 (Г – Ж), Kharkiv, Kyiv: Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, page 942
• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1990), “жужелица, жюжелица”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 10 (жеребецъ – замена), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 55
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2002), “жужелица”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 9 (дѣдичъ – загонити), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 181