łukas

See also: lukas, Lukas, Lukáš, and Lúkas

Sudovian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. Compare Lithuanian lokỹs, Latvian lâcis, Old Prussian clokis.^[1][2]

Noun

łukaſ

1. (zoology) bear
   • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 24, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):

     niedzwedz [niedźwiedź] — łukaſ

     niedzwedz [niedźwiedź] — bear

References

1. Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis?”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 75: “łukaſ ‘lokys, l. niedzwedz’ 24.”
2. “lokỹs” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. sm. łukaſ Bär”.