Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pakъ

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

Either formed as *pa- (“later”) +‎ *-kъ, in the same manner as *jakъ (“such”), *kakъ (“how”), *takъ (“thus”) from *jь (“this here”), *kъjь (“who, which”), *tъ (“this”), or a back-formation from *opakъ (“reverse, the other way round”) with dropped *o-.

Adverb

*pakъ

1. again, once more
2. yet

Derived terms

• *vьśe paky (“all the same”)
• *ni paky (“neither”)
• *pakъ byti (“over again, as result of anastasis”)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: пакъ (pakŭ), пакꙑ (paky)

    ⇒ Russian: пак (pak) (dialectal, archaic)

    ⇒ Ukrainian: пак (pak) (archaic)

  • Bulgarian: пак (pak), dial. паки (paki)
  • Macedonian: пак (pak)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: па̏к

    Latin script: pȁk

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pak
    • Czech: pak
  • Lower Sorbian: pak

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “опак”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пак”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 14