zuikis

Lithuanian

Etymology

See Latvian zaķis. Probably from a certain kind of Slavic language (compare Russian зайка (zajka)). Compare also Old Prussian zasins[1].

Noun

zuĩkis m (plural zuĩkiai) stress pattern 2

hare, rabbit
meatloaf

Declension

declension of zuikis

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	zuĩkis	zuĩkiai
genitive (kilmininkas)	zuĩkio	zuĩkių
dative (naudininkas)	zuĩkiui	zuĩkiams
accusative (galininkas)	zuĩkį	zuĩkius
instrumental (įnagininkas)	zuĩkiu	zuĩkiais
locative (vietininkas)	zuĩkyje	zuĩkiuose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	zuĩki	zuĩkiai

Synonyms

kiškis

See also

triušis

References

Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “zając”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, published 1985, page 643

“zuikis” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

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