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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lǫkъ

This Proto-Slavic 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-Slavic

Etymology

Related to the verb *lęťi (“to bend”). The noun formation also exists as Lithuanian lañkas (“bow, arc”) and Latvian loks (“bow; arch”).

Noun

*lǫ̑kъ m [1][2]

  1. bow (weapon used for shooting arrows)

Declension
Declension of *lǫ̑kъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *lǫ̑kъ *lǫ̑ka *lǫ̑ci
Accusative *lǫ̑kъ *lǫ̑ka *lǫ̑ky
Genitive *lǫ̑ka *lǫkù *lǫ̃kъ
Locative *lǫ̑cě *lǫkù *lǫcě̃xъ
Dative *lǫ̑ku *lǫkomà *lǫkòmъ
Instrumental *lǫ̑kъmь, *lǫ̑komь* *lǫkomà *lǫký
Vocative *lǫče *lǫ̑ka *lǫ̑ci
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: лѫкъ (lǫkŭ)
      Glagolitic: ⰾⱘⰽⱏ (lǫkŭ)
    • Bulgarian: лък (lǎk)
    • Macedonian: лак (lak)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: лу̑к
      Latin: lȗk
    • Slovene: lọ̑k (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “лук”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lǫ̑kъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 289: “m. o (c) ‘bow’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “lǫkъ lǫka”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “d hoop, arc; bow (NA 100; SA 22; OSA 41; PR 137)”
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