Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/želǫdъkъ

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

According to Deborah Hayden and David Stifter, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰelH-end- from *gʰelH- (“digestive organ, stomach”), related to Ancient Greek χολάδες (kholádes, “intestines”), Ancient Macedonian γόλα (góla, “intestines”), Old Irish eclas (“stomach, gizzard”), Breton elaz (“gizzard”).

Noun

*želǫdъkъ m

1. stomach

Declension

Declension of *želǫdъkъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*želǫdъkъ	*želǫdъka	*želǫdъci
genitive	*želǫdъka	*želǫdъku	*želǫdъkъ
dative	*želǫdъku	*želǫdъkoma	*želǫdъkomъ
accusative	*želǫdъkъ	*želǫdъka	*želǫdъky
instrumental	*želǫdъkъmь, *želǫdъkomь*	*želǫdъkoma	*želǫdъky
locative	*želǫdъcě	*želǫdъku	*želǫdъcěxъ
vocative	*želǫdъče	*želǫdъka	*želǫdъci

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: жалу́дак (žalúdak) (dialectal)
  • Russian: желу́док (želúdok)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: жалу́док (žalúdok)
  • Ukrainian: желу́док (želúdok) (dialectal), жолу́док (žolúdok) (dialectal)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: желѫдъкъ (želǫdŭkŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰶⰵⰾⱘⰴⱏⰽⱏ (želǫdŭkŭ)

  • Bulgarian: желъ́дък (želǎ́dǎk) (rare)

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: želudek
    • Czech: žaludek
  • Old Polish: żołądek
    • Polish: żołądek
  • Slovak: žalúdok
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: žołdk
    • Lower Sorbian: žołdk

From *želǫdьcь

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: жѐлудац

  Latin script: žèludac

• Slovene: želôdec

From *želǫdьnikъ

• Macedonian: желудник (želudnik)

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*želǫdъkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 556
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “желу́док”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress