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 7^th–8^th century from the Dalmatian version 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: лоштика (loštika)
  • Bulgarian: лоштика (loštika) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: лоштика (loštika) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ло̀ћика

    Latin script: lòćika

    • → Albanian: leqikë, loçike
  • Slovene: ločíka, ločičje
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: locika
    • Czech: locika, locyka
  • Old Polish: łoczyga, łocyga
    • Polish: łoczyga
      • → Russian: лочи́га (ločíga)
  • Slovak: locika

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