канюк

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kanjukъ / *kanjakъ, from *kaňa, from Proto-Indo-European *kōnyā or *kan- (“to sing”), whence also Proto-Germanic *hanô (“rooster, cock”), Proto-Germanic *hanjō (“hen”) (whence English hen), Latin cicōnia (“stork”), Latin canō (“to sing”), Welsh canu, Ancient Greek καναχέω (kanakhéō).

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈnʲuk]

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каню́к • (kanjúk) m anim (genitive канюка́, nominative plural канюки́, genitive plural канюко́в)

1. buzzard (any bird from the genus Buteo, or, sensu lato, from the subfamily Buteoninae)

• каню́чить (kanjúčitʹ, “to pester with requests, to moan, to grumble”)
• настоя́щий каню́к (nastojáščij kanjúk)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “канюк”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress