паяк

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic паѭкъ (pajǫkŭ), going back to Proto-Slavic *paǫkъ + epenthetic *-j-. Morphologically formed as па- (pa-) +‎ *ѫк (*ǫk, “angler, hooker”). Compare Church Slavonic ѫкоть (ǫkotĭ, “hook”) (Serbian recension).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpajɐk]
• (nonstandard) IPA^(key): [ˈpaek]

па́як • (pájak) m (relational adjective па́ячен, diminutive па́яче)

1. spider, arachnid
2. spider crawl (a muscular exercise)

• паякообра́зен (pajakoobrázen, “arachnomorphous”)

• па́яжина (pájažina, “spider's web”)

• → Turkish: payak

• “паяк”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “паяк”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “паяк¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 121

• капя (kapja)