Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/paǫkъ

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

*pa- +‎ *ǫkъ (“hook”) (whence *ǫkotь) < Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“hook”). The spider was thus named after the shape of its legs. Indo-European cognates include Latin uncus, Ancient Greek ὄγκος (ónkos) and Sanskrit अङ्क (aṅká).

Noun

*pàǭkъ m

1. spider

Inflection

Declension of *pàǭkъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pàǭkъ	*pàǭka	*pàǭci
genitive	*pàǭka	*pàǭku	*pàǭkъ
dative	*pàǭku	*pàǭkoma	*pàǭkomъ
accusative	*pàǭkъ	*pàǭka	*pàǭky
instrumental	*pàǭkъmь, *pàǭkomь*	*pàǭkoma	*pàǭkȳ
locative	*pàǭcě	*pàǭku	*pàǭcě̄xъ
vocative	*pàǭče	*pàǭka	*pàǭci

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

Descendants

• East Slavic: паукъ (paukŭ)
  • Belarusian: паву́к (pavúk)
  • Russian: пау́к (paúk)
  • Ukrainian: паву́к (pavúk)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: паѫкъ (paǫkŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⰰⱘⰽⱏ (paǫkŭ)

  • Bulgarian: па́як (pájak)
  • Macedonian: пајак (pajak)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: па̏ӯк

    Latin script: pȁūk

  • Slovene: pȃjək (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pavouk
  • Polish: pająk
  • Slovak: pavúk
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pawk
    • Upper Sorbian: pawk

Further reading

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