Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čuka

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kjaukāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-éh₂, from *kewk- (to elevate, to crook), contrast with *kuča (heap) from *kaukjāˀ, with Proto-Germanic *haugaz (height, hill). But regard Albanian çukë (hill; beak), Romanian ciucă (hill), Romanian cioc (beak), Megleno-Romanian cĭucă (hill), Aromanian ciucã (hill). Due to the regional distribution of the term, some scholars[1] see a Balkan substrate.

Noun

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*čuka f[2]

  1. cusp, peak, rock hill

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: чу́ка (čúka)
    • Macedonian: чука (čuka)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: чу̏ка
      Latin script: čȕka

References

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  1. ^ Skok, Petar (1971) “Proto-Slavic/čuka”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 340
  2. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čuka”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 131