Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/junakъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *junъ (“young”) +‎ *-akъ.

Noun

*junakъ m^[1]

young lad

Declension

Declension of *junakъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*junakъ	*junaka	*junaci
genitive	*junaka	*junaku	*junakъ
dative	*junaku	*junakoma	*junakomъ
accusative	*junakъ	*junaka	*junaky
instrumental	junakъmь, junakomь^*	*junakoma	*junaky
locative	*junacě	*junaku	*junacěxъ
vocative	*junače	*junaka	*junaci

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: юна́к (junák)
- Ukrainian: юна́к (junák)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: юнакъ (junakŭ)
  - Bulgarian: юна́к (junák)
  - Macedonian: јунак (junak)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ју̀на̄к
  
  Latin script: jùnāk
- Slovene: junák (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: jonák, (Moravian), junák
- Polish: junak (dialectal)
- Slovak: junák (literary)
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: junak (obsolete)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*junakъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 193

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*junakъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 193

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