Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/okolo

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

From *o(b) +‎ *kolo.

Preposition

*okolo

1. (with genitive) around

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: около (okolo)
    • Russian: о́коло (ókolo)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: о́коло (ókolo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̏коло

    Latin script: ȍkolo

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): okolo
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): ȍkolo
    • Chakavian (Orlec): õkolo
    • Kajkavian (Bednja): ekyelu
    • Kajkavian (Varaždin): okȏli
  • Slovene: okȏli (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: òkòło
  • Old Czech: okolo
    • Czech: okolo
  • Old Polish: około
    • Polish: około
    • Silesian: ôkoło
  • Old Slovak: okolo
    • Slovak: okolo
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wokoło
    • Lower Sorbian: wokoło

Further reading

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