Wiktionary

masliak

Slovak edit

 
masliak smrekovcový
(larch bolete, Suillus grevillei)

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *masľakъ. By surface analysis, maslo (“butter”) +‎ -iak, because the flesh of the mushroom is butterlike soft and the cap is sometimes slimy as it were greased.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

masliak m inan (genitive singular masliaka, nominative plural masliaky, declension pattern of dub)

  1. fungus belonging to the genus Suillus (slippery jack)

Declension edit

Declension of masliak
singular plural
nominative masliak masliaky
genitive masliaka masliakov
dative masliaku masliakom
accusative masliak masliaky
locative masliaku masliakoch
instrumental masliakom masliakmi

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “maslo”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 348.

Further reading edit

  • “masliak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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