Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lǫkъ
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás. Related to the verb *lęťi (“to bend”). Cognate with Lithuanian lañkas (“bow, arc”) and Latvian loks (“bow; arch”).
Noun
[edit]- bow (weapon used for shooting arrows)
Declension
[edit]Declension of *lǫ̑kъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Related terms
[edit]- *lękati, *lęcati (“to set traps, to scare?”)
- *lęťi (“to bend”)
- *lękъ (“bent”)
- *lǭčìti (“to separate”)
- *lǫčьje (“rush”)
- *lǭkà (“low-lying meadow”)
- *lǫkàvъ (“curved, cunning”)
Descendants
[edit]- Old East Slavic: лукъ (lukŭ)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лук”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
[edit]- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lǫ̑kъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 289: “m. o (c) ‘bow’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “lǫkъ lǫka”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “d hoop, arc; bow (NA 100; SA 22; OSA 41; PR 137)”