Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tokъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *takas, from Proto-Indo-European *tokʷos, from *tekʷ- (“to run, flow”). Equivalent to *teťi (“to flow, run”) + *-ъ.[1]
Baltic cognates include Lithuanian tãkas (“footpath, path”), Latvian taks (“footpath, path”)
Indo-European cognates include Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬐𐬀 (taka, “course”)
Noun
*tȍkъ m[1]
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *tȍkъ | *tȍka | *tȍci |
| genitive | *tȍka | *tokù | *tòkъ |
| dative | *tȍku | *tokomà | *tokòmъ |
| accusative | *tȍkъ | *tȍka | *tȍky |
| instrumental | *tȍkъmь, *tȍkomь* | *tokomà | *toký |
| locative | *tȍcě | *tokù | *tocě̃xъ |
| vocative | *toče | *tȍka | *tȍci |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ток”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “течь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 243
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “токъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments][1] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 973
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*tȏkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 494