Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/otrokъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *otъ- + *rokъ (“term, agreement”). For a similar semantic derivative, compare Latin īnfāns (“infant”) from Latin for (“to talk”).
Noun
Inflection
Declension of *otrokъ (hard o-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *otrokъ | *otroka | *otroci |
genitive | *otroka | *otroku | *otrokъ |
dative | *otroku | *otrokoma | *otrokomъ |
accusative | *otrokъ | *otroka | *otroky |
instrumental | *otrokъmь, *otrokomь* | *otrokoma | *otroky |
locative | *otrocě | *otroku | *otrocěxъ |
vocative | *otroče | *otroka | *otroci |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
Derived terms
- *otročiťь (“young boy”)
- *otrokovica (“young girl”)
- *otročina (“infancy, childhood”)
- *otročę (“infant”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: отрокъ (otrokŭ)
- Bulgarian: отро́к (otrók)
- Serbo-Croatian: otrȍk (Chakavian)
- Slovene: otrȍk (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “о́трок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*otrokъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 382: “m. o ‘child, servant’”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “otrȍk”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*otròkъ”