Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dalekъ

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 *dalь (“distance”) +‎ *-okъ. Compare Latvian tāls (“far, distant”), but the initial d remains unexplained.)

Adjective

*dalèkъ

1. far

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: далёкі (daljóki)
  • Russian: далёкий (daljókij)
  • Ukrainian: дале́кий (dalékyj)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: далече (daleče)
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: дале́чен (daléčen)
  • ⇒ Macedonian: да́лечен (dálečen), далек (dalek) (literary)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: да̀лек
    • Latin script: dàlek
  • Slovene: dálek

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: daleký
    • Czech: daleký
  • Kashubian: daleczi
  • Polabian: dolĕk
  • Polish: daleki
  • Slovak: ďaleký
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: daloki
    • Lower Sorbian: daloki

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “далёкий”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dalèkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 95