Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/piľukъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Probably from *pilę (“chick”) +‎ *-ukъ, originally conveying “one that prays on chicken”.

Noun

*piľukъ m

1. a bird of pray (hawk, harrier, kite, falcon)

Alternative forms

• *piľakъ, *piľuxъ, *piľuga, *pilęga

Declension

Declension of *piľukъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*piľukъ	*piľuka	*piľuci
genitive	*piľuka	*piľuku	*piľukъ
dative	*piľuku	*piľukoma	*piľukomъ
accusative	*piľukъ	*piľuka	*piľuky
instrumental	*piľukъmь, *piľukomь*	*piľukoma	*piľuky
locative	*piľucě	*piľuku	*piľucěxъ
vocative	*piľuče	*piľuka	*piľuci

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: пилю́к (piljúk) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: пилю́к (pyljúk) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пи́люк (píljuk), пи́ля́к (pílják), пи́люг (píljug), пи́лек (pílek) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal)

    Cyrillic script: пѝљуга, пѝљуx

    Latin script: pìljuga, pìljuh

  • Slovene: piljúh
    • → Czech: pilich

Further reading

• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пилюк”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 240
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “пилюк”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka