Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lukъ
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Proto-Slavic
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Etymology
[edit]Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”). Compare Low German look, Look, German Lauch, Swedish lök.
Noun
[edit]*lukъ m
- (usually uncountable) onion, leek (Allium cepa, Allium ampeloprasum and its bulb and its leaves)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of *lukъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
[edit]- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lukъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 172
- Olander, Thomas (2001) “lukъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 147; PR 131; RPT 101)”
- Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic[2], Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 87–88