Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tyky

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

A wanderwort

either related to the word for cucurbits Arabic قِثَّاء‎ (qiṯṯāʾ, “Cucumis”), Old Armenian սեխ (sex, “muskmelon”), Ancient Greek σικύα (sikúa, “bottle gourd”), Ancient Greek σίκυος (síkuos), σικυός (sikuós), σίκυς (síkus, “cucumber”), Latin cucumis (“cucumber”),
or to the word for figs Old Armenian թուզ (tʿuz, “fig”), Boeotian Greek τῦκον (tûkon, “fig”), Attic Greek σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”), Latin fīcus (“fig”).

Noun

*tyky f

pumpkin, gourd

Declension

Declension of *tyky (v-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*tyky	*tykъvi	*tykъvi
Accusative	*tykъvь	*tykъvi	*tykъvi
Genitive	*tykъve	*tykъvu	*tykъvъ
Locative	*tykъve	*tykъvu	tykъvьxъ, tykъvaxъ^*
Dative	*tykъvi	tykъvьma, tykъvama^*	tykъvьmъ, tykъvamъ^*
Instrumental	tykъvьjǫ, tykъvľǫ^**	tykъvьma, tykъvama^*	tykъvьmi, tykъvami^*
Vocative	*tyky	*tykъvi	*tykъvi

^* -ьmъ/etc. are the original consonant-stem endings, while -amъ/etc. are later Common Slavic endings formed by analogy with a-stems.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: ты́ква (týkva)
- Ukrainian: тѝква (tѝkva)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: тыкы (tyky)
- Bulgarian: тѝква (tìkva)
- Macedonian: тиква (tikva)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ти̏ква
  
  Latin: tȉkva
- Slovene: tȋkva
West Slavic:
- Czech: tykev
- Polish: tykwa
- ⇒ Slovak: tekvica
- Sorbian: ╳

Borrowed from a South Slavic language:
- → Hungarian: tök

References

Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “тыква”, 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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