Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žukъ
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editUltimately onomatopoeic.
Noun
edit*žukъ m
- beetle (insect)
Declension
editDeclension of *žukъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
edit- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жук”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress