Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/potokъ

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

Can be analyzed as:

*po- +‎ *tokъ (“flow, stream”)
*/potekti/ > *poteťi (“to elapse; start flowing”) → o-grade of the verbal stem *potok- + nominalizer *-ъ

Noun

*potokъ m

stream, torrent
brook (small river)

Declension

Declension of *potokъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*potokъ	*potoka	*potoci
Accusative	*potokъ	*potoka	*potoky
Genitive	*potoka	*potoku	*potokъ
Locative	*potocě	*potoku	*potocěxъ
Dative	*potoku	*potokoma	*potokomъ
Instrumental	potokъmь, potokomь^*	*potokoma	*potoky
Vocative	*potoče	*potoka	*potoci

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: пато́к (patók)
- Russian: пото́к (potók)
- Ukrainian: поті́к (potík)

South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: пото́к (potók)
- Macedonian: по́ток (pótok)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: по̀ток
  
  Latin: pòtok
- Slovene: pótok (tonal orthography)

West Slavic:
- Czech: potok
- Polish: potok
- Slovak: potok
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: [Term?]
  - Upper Sorbian: [Term?]

Non-Slavic languages:
- Hungarian: patak

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