Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/telkti

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

Alternative reconstructions

• (East Slavic) *tolktì

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *telktei, from Proto-Indo-European *telk-e-ti ~ *telk-ti, from *telk- (“to thrust, strike”). Cognate with Lithuanian tel̃kti (“assemble for collective assistance”), Old Prussian tlāku (“threshes”, 3 sg.).

Verb

*telktì impf

1. to beat, to crush, pound

Related terms

• *telťì
• *tolka

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: таўкці́ (taŭkcí); тоўкці́ (toŭkcí), товкты́ (tovktý), товкчи́ (tovkčí) (dialectal, obsolete)
    • ⇒ Belarusian: таўкці́ся (taŭkcísja), тоўкці́са (toŭkcísa) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: товкти́ (tovktý), толокти́ (toloktý)
  • Russian: толкти́ (tolktí)

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “telkti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 463: “PSL *telkti v. (c) 'pound'”