гушенїца

Inherited from Old Slovak húsenica, from Proto-Slavic *ǫsěnica. Cognates include Carpathian Rusyn гусе́лниця (husélnycja) and Slovak húsenica. Most likely, sense 2 is a semantic loan from Serbo-Croatian гусеница / gusenica, but compare also Polish gąsienica, Russian гу́сеница (gúsenica) and Ukrainian гу́сениця (húsenycja).

• IPA^(key): [ɦuʃɛˈɲit͡sa]
• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Hyphenation: гу‧ше‧нї‧ца

гушенїца (hušenjica) f

2. caterpillar (larva of butterfly or moth)
4. caterpillar track (continuous track in the form of a steel or rubber belt fitted around the wheels of crawlers, bulldozers, excavators, etc.)
   • 2023 May 27, А. Паланчанин, “Нашо поля, заш лєм, найлєпши у Европи”, in Руске Слово‎^[1]:

     Чежки є 30 тони, та прето место ґумох ма ґумово гушенїци.

     Čežki je 30 toni, ta preto mesto gumox ma gumovo hušenjici.

     It weighs 30 tons, which is why in place of tyres, it has rubber tracks.

5. (in the plural) fried dessert made of flour, milk and eggs

• Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M.; Timko-Djitko, O. (2010), “гушенїца”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
• Fejsa, M.; Šlemender, M.; Čelʹovski, S. (2022), “caterpillar”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 50