Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/loťika

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

Borrowed in the 7th–8th century from the Dalmatian Proto-Romance form of Latin lactūca. Borrowed into East Slavic only by horticulturalists in late Medieval times as Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian лату́к (latúk).

Noun

*loťika f

  1. salad plant from the Cichorieae tribe of the Asteraceae
    1. lettuce (Lactuca spp.)
    2. nipplewort (Lapsana spp.)

Inflection

Declension of *loťika (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *loťika *loťicě *loťiky
genitive *loťiky *loťiku *loťikъ
dative *loťicě *loťikama *loťikamъ
accusative *loťikǫ *loťicě *loťiky
instrumental *loťikojǫ, *loťikǫ** *loťikama *loťikami
locative *loťicě *loťiku *loťikasъ, *loťikaxъ*
vocative *loťiko *loťicě *loťiky

* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: лощика (loštika)
      • Bulgarian: лощика (loštika) (dialectal)
      • Macedonian: лоштика (loštika) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ло̀ћика
      Latin script: lòćika
      • Albanian: leqikë, loçike
    • Slovene: ločíka, ločičje
  • West Slavic:

References

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*loktika”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 7
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лочи́га”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress