Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/paǫkъ

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 *pà- +‎ *ǫ̀kъ (“hook”); the second component is related to *ǫkotь (“hook”).^[1]

Noun

*pàǭkъ m^[2]

spider
Synonym: *mězgyrь

Declension

Declension of *pàǭkъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pàǭkъ	*pàǭka	*pàǭci
genitive	*pàǭka	*pàǭku	*pàǭkъ
dative	*pàǭku	*pàǭkoma	*pàǭkomъ
accusative	*pàǭkъ	*pàǭka	*pàǭky
instrumental	pàǭkъmь, pàǭkomь^*	*pàǭkoma	*pàǭkȳ
locative	*pàǭcě	*pàǭku	*pàǭcě̄xъ
vocative	*pàǭče	*pàǭka	*pàǭci

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

Derived terms

nouns

*pàǭčīna f (“spiderweb, cobweb”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: паѫкъ (paǫkŭ), паукъ (paukŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: пау́къ (paúk), паву́къ (pavúk)
    - Belarusian: паву́к (pavúk)
    - Ukrainian: паву́к (pavúk)
  - Middle Russian: пау́къ (paúk)
    - Russian: пау́к (paúk)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: паѭкъ (pajǫkŭ), паѫкъ (paǫkŭ)
  
  Glagolitic: ⱂⰰⱘⰽⱏ (paǫkŭ)
- Bulgarian: па́як (pájak), па́янк (pájank), па́йонк (pájonk), па́енк (páenk)
- Macedonian: пајак (pajak)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: па̏ӯк
  
  Latin script: pȁūk
- Slovene: pȃjək (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: paúk
  - Czech: pavouk
- Kashubian: pajk
- Polabian: pojąk
- Polish: pająk
- Silesian: pajōnk
- Old Slovak: pavúk
  - Pannonian Rusyn: павук (pavuk)
  - Slovak: pavúk
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: pawk
  - Upper Sorbian: pawk

Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: pók
- → Aromanian: pangu

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pàǭkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 391
^ Kapović, Mate (2015) Povijest hrvatske akcentuacije. Fonetika [History of Croatian Accent. Phonetics]‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, →ISBN, page 504: “*pa̋ǭkъ”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pàǭkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 391

[2] Kapović, Mate (2015) Povijest hrvatske akcentuacije. Fonetika [History of Croatian Accent. Phonetics]‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, →ISBN, page 504: “*pa̋ǭkъ”

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