Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sokolъ

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

Either from *sokotati (“about the sounds of birds”) or *sočiti (“to chase, track”) +‎ *-olъ.

Noun

*sȍkolъ m

1. falcon

Declension

Declension of *sȍkolъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sȍkolъ	*sȍkola	*sȍkoli
genitive	*sȍkola	*sokolù	*sokòlъ
dative	*sȍkolu	*sokolomà	*sokolòmъ
accusative	*sȍkolъ	*sȍkola	*sȍkoly
instrumental	*sȍkolъmь, *sȍkolomь*	*sokolomà	*sokolý
locative	*sȍkolě	*sokolù	*sokolě̃xъ
vocative	*sokole	*sȍkola	*sȍkoli

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

Derived terms

• *sokolь̀cь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: соко́лъ (sokólŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: со́колъ (sókol)
      • Belarusian: со́кал (sókal), сако́л (sakól)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: со́кул (sókul)
      • Ukrainian: со́кіл (sókil)
    • Russian: со́кол (sókol)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: соколъ (sokolŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⱁⰽⱁⰾⱏ (sokolŭ)

  • Bulgarian: сокол (sokol)
  • Macedonian: сокол (sokol)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: соко

    Latin script: soko

  • Slovene: sokol
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: sokol
    • Czech: sokol
  • Kashubian: sokół
  • Old Polish: sokół
    • Polish: sokół
  • Slovak: sokol
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: sokoł
    • Upper Sorbian: sokoł

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “со́кол”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress