Reconstruction:Dacian/skuia
Dacian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *skuy-eh₂, from *skwey- (“needle, prickle, thorn”).
Cognate with Proto-Slavic *xvoja (“needles or branches of conifer”) (whence also Russian хво́я (xvója), Polish choja), Lithuanian skujà (“needle of a coniferous tree”), Latvian skuja (“needle of a fir-tree”), Proto-Celtic *skʷiy-at-s (“hawthorn”) (whence also Breton spezad (“gooseberry”), Cornish spedhas (“briars”), Welsh ysbyddad (“hawthorn”), Scottish Gaelic sceathan (“thorn bush”), Pictish *ᚄᚚᚔᚌᚐᚇ (*spijad, “thorn”)).
Proper noun edit
*skuia[1]
- spruce, fir-tree (Abies balsamea)
Descendants edit
- → Ancient Greek: Σκουάνες (Skouánes) (toponym)
References edit
- ^ Duridanov, Ivan (1969), Georgiev, V. I., editor, Thrakisch-dakische Studien, I: Die thrakisch- und dakisch-baltischen Sprachbeziehungen (Linguistique Balkanique; XIII, 2)[1] (in German), issue 2, Sofia: Verlag der Bulgarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 65