žuvis

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *źū́ˀs; related to Latvian zivs, Old Prussian suckis (fish), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰu- [1]; cognate with Ancient Greek ἰχθῡ́ς (ikhthū́s), Old Armenian ձուկն (jukn, fish).

Since *dK- regularly yielded *iKt- in Greek (compare ἰκτῖνος (iktînos), ἑκατόν (hekatón)), Proto-Indo-European *d- as opposed to *dʰ- must be reconstructed, encouraging a connection with the root *deǵʰ- (liquid?); compare Old Irish deug (drink, draught, potion), Lithuanian dažaĩ (paint, dye). A similar semantic path can be observed in ūdra (otter) from *wed- (water) [2]

Noun

žuvìs f (plural žùvys) stress pattern 4

  1. fish (living animal or its meat)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 523
  2. Alwin Kloekhorst (forthc.) Proto-Indo-European "thorn"-clusters.
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