шушукаться

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Russian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Onomatopoeic; from шу, шу! (šu, šu!, shhh!) +‎ -кать (-katʹ) +‎ -ся (-sja). Cognate with Ukrainian шушу́кати (šušúkaty), Belarusian шушу́каць (šušúkacʹ), шу́шкаць (šúškacʹ), Bulgarian шушу́кам (šušúkam), Serbo-Croatian шу̏шкати (to rustle, to make noise) (also шу́штати), Slovene šȗškati (to rustle, to make noise) (tonal orthography).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ʂʊˈʂukət͡sə]

Verb[edit]

шушу́каться (šušúkatʹsjaimpf

  1. (colloquial) to whisper to each other

Conjugation[edit]

References[edit]

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шушукать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress