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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bak-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed words 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-Indo-European

Root

*bak- [1]

  1. peg, club

Reconstruction notes

Various points suggest a post-Indo-European borrowing from an unknown source:

  • The phoneme *b, which is rare and of somewhat doubtful status.
  • The consistent occurrence of *a.
  • The alternation between *k and geminate *kk across the descendants.

According to Oxford's Introduction to proto-Indo-European[2], the initial *b- may have been due to the informal ("popular") nature of the term. Kroonen[3] and De Vaan[4] reconstruct no Proto-Indo-European form at all.

Derived terms
  • *bak-o-s
    • Balto-Slavic: *bakas
  • *bak(s)-nos
    • Celtic: *bekkos (“beak”) (see there for further descendants)
      • ⇒ English: beak
      • Old Irish: bacc (“block”)
    • Balto-Slavic:
      • Lithuanian: baksnóti (“to poke”)
  • *bak-tro-m, *bak-tlo-m
    • Ancient Greek: βάκτρον (báktron)
    • Italic: *baklom
  • *bak-yéh₂
    • Germanic: *pagjō

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 93
  2. Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 246
  3. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*pagila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 395
  4. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “baculum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 67
  5. Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “бок”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
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