пиявка

Russian
пиявка

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pьjavъka. Cognate with Ukrainian п'я́вка (pʺjávka), Belarusian п'я́ўка (pʺjáŭka), Czech pijavka, Polish pijawka, Slovene pijavka.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [pʲɪˈjafkə]
  • пиявка(file)

Noun

пия́вка • (pijávka) f anim (genitive пия́вки, nominative plural пия́вки, genitive plural пия́вок)

  1. leech (blood-sucking annelid)

Declension
Declension of пия́вка (anim fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc) 
singular plural
nominative пия́вка
pijávka		 пия́вки
pijávki
genitive пия́вки
pijávki		 пия́вок
pijávok
dative пия́вке
pijávke		 пия́вкам
pijávkam
accusative пия́вку
pijávku		 пия́вок
pijávok
instrumental пия́вкой, пия́вкою
pijávkoj, pijávkoju		 пия́вками
pijávkami
prepositional пия́вке
pijávke		 пия́вках
pijávkax

Descendants
  • → Yiddish: פּיאַווקע (pyavke)

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