liska

See also: Liska, liška, Liška, líska, líška, and Líška

Old High German

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *hlisku, *hlisiku, *hlusiku (“sedge”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *hlus (“reed, sedge”). The ultimate origin could be

Borrowed from Romance/Medieval Latin lisca, though the reverse is also possible; this could be from Vulgar Latin *alisca, from Latin arista (“(ear of) corn, grain, awn”).^[1]
From Proto-Indo-European *leu, related to Lithuanian laure (“dirty person”),^[2]^[3] referring to the mud it grows in.
From a pre-Germanic/pre-Roman substrate language.^[4]^[5]

Compare Middle Low German lēsch, lǖsch, lūs, lēsek, lēsik (“reed, sedge”), Middle Dutch luusch, Old Saxon hlus (“reed, sedge”).

liska f

^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “lisca”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lerë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 219
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “681”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 681
^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “lis1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
^ “laîche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

liska m animal

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *listъ, possibly borrowed through Polish liść; compare with the inherited lȋst.

lȉska f (Cyrillic spelling ли̏ска)

Declension of liska