The rooster is calling: suk in Northern Talyshi

While numerous significant works on Iranian etymology and historical lexicology have emerged since the end of the 19th century, and several important etymological dictionaries on Iranian languages were published at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries (such as V. Rastorgueva and D. Edelman's "Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Languages", R. Tsabolov's "Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language", J. Cheung's "Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb"), there is still no dedicated work on the history of Talyshi vocabulary. Only a small portion of the Talyshi inherited lexicon has been subjected to etymological analysis, either in some of the aforementioned works as Talyshi cognates or in various papers addressing diverse issues of Iranian historical lexicography. This paper represents an attempt to investigate the origin of the word suk meaning 'rooster' in Talyshi, a subject that has not been examined from an etymological perspective in works dealing with Iranian linguistics.