masliak
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *masľakъ. By surface analysis, maslo (“butter”) + -iak, because the flesh of the mushroom is butterlike soft and the cap is sometimes slimy as it were greased.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /masʎɪ̯ak/, (high register) [ˈmasʎɪ̯ak], (common) [ˈmaslɪ̯ak]
- Rhymes: -asʎɪ̯ak
- Hyphenation: mas‧liak
Noun
masliak m inan (relational adjective masliakový, diminutive masliačik)
- fungus belonging to the genus Suillus (slippery jack)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | masliak | masliaky |
| genitive | masliaka | masliakov |
| dative | masliaku | masliakom |
| accusative | masliak | masliaky |
| locative | masliaku | masliakoch |
| instrumental | masliakom | masliakmi |
Related terms
- maslo n
References
- ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016), “maslo”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 348.
Further reading
- “masliak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026