• сычъ(syč) —Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*syťь.

• IPA^(key):[sɨt͡ɕ]

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• Rhymes:-ɨt͡ɕ

сыч• (syč) m anim (genitiveсыча́,nominative pluralсычи́,genitive pluralсыче́й,relational adjectiveсычи́ныйorсычёвый,diminutiveсы́чик)

1. an owl of genusAthene orAegolius

   домо́выйсыч ―domóvyjsyč ―(Athene noctua)little owl

   мохноно́гийсыч ―moxnonógijsyč ―(Aegolius funereus)boreal owl

2. (poetic) owl (any bird of the orderStrigiformes)
3. recluse

• сычева́ть impf(syčevátʹ)

• сова́ f anim(sová)

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

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “сыч”, inТолковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographerWolf, M. O.
• сыч inБольшой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru