Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věko

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *wḗˀka. Baltic cognates include Latvian vâks (“lid, eyelid”), Lithuanian vókas (“eyelid, envelope”).

Noun

*věko n

lid
eyelid

Declension

Declension of *věko (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*věko	*vě̀cě	*vě̀ka
genitive	*vě̀ka	*vě̀ku	*vě̀kъ
dative	*vě̀ku	*vě̀koma	*vě̀komъ
accusative	*věko	*vě̀cě	*vě̀ka
instrumental	vě̀kъmь, vě̀komь^*	*vě̀koma	*vě̀kȳ
locative	*vě̀cě	*vě̀ku	*vě̀cě̄xъ
vocative	*věko	*vě̀cě	*vě̀ka

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: вѣко (věko)
  - Old Ruthenian: вѣко (věko)
    - Belarusian: ве́ка (vjéka)
    - Ukrainian: віко (viko)
  - Russian: ве́ко (véko)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: вѣко (věko)
- Slovene: véka (tonal orthography), véko (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: vieko
  - Czech: víko
    - Moravian: věko, viko
- Polish: wieko
- Slovak: veko
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: wjeko
  - Upper Sorbian: wěko

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 519
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ве́ко”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress