Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/loťika
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
- salad plant from the Cichorieae tribe of the Asteraceae
- lettuce (Lactuca spp.)
- nipplewort (Lapsana spp.)
Inflection
| 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
- Old Church Slavonic: лощика (loštika)
- 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