The story
- Proto-Slavic · derived from*čajьka
- Bulgarian · derived fromша́йка
- Ottoman Turkish · derived fromشایقه
- Italian · derived fromsaicca
- French · borrowed fromsaïque
- English todaysaic
From French saïque, from Italian saicca, from Ottoman Turkish شایقه (şayka), from Bulgarian ша́йка (šájka) (a variant of Bulgarian ча́йка (čájka)), from Proto-Slavic *čajьka. Doublet of Czajka.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Slavic*čajьka all →
Chayka
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.