суслик

Inherited from Old East Slavic сусолу (susolu), that from Proto-Slavic *sysьlъ, probably onomatopoeic of its calls; related to Bulgarian съскам (sǎskam, “I hiss”) and Old Church Slavonic свистати (svistati, “to whistle”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsus⁽ʲ⁾lʲɪk]

су́слик • (súslik) m anim (genitive су́слика, nominative plural су́слики, genitive plural су́сликов, relational adjective су́сликовый)

1. suslik, ground squirrel, spermophile, gopher

Proverbs

• ка́ждый су́слик агроно́м (káždyj súslik agronóm)

• → English: suslik, souslik
• → Ingrian: suslikka

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “суслик”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “суслик”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Krylov, G. A. (2004) “суслик”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN
• Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “суслик”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 414
• “souslik”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “джумбура”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “еврашка”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.