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)
- 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 |
Related terms
- пиявочка (pijavočka)
- пиявица (pijavica)
Descendants
- → Yiddish: פּיאַווקע (pyavke)
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пиявка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress