стычка
RussianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Per Dal, from стыка́ть (stykátʹ, “to connect, to join”) + -ка (-ka); presumably the sense development was "joining" → "meeting" → "skirmishing".
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
сты́чка • (stýčka) f inan (genitive сты́чки, nominative plural сты́чки, genitive plural сты́чек)
- skirmish (brief battle between small groups)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of сты́чка (inan fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc)
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “стычка”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.