Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bokъ
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editOriginally meaning “protrusion” or “wedge”. Probably cognate with Latvian bakstît (“to poke”). Outside of Balto-Slavic, has been compared with Latin baculum, Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron), Proto-Celtic *bakkos (“hook”), Proto-Germanic *pagjō (“peg”), presumably from Proto-Indo-European *bak-.
Kroonen considers a Germanic borrowing from Proto-West Germanic *bakō (“back”).[1] Vasmer dismisses this possibility for phonetic and semantic reasons.
Noun
editDeclension
editDeclension of *bokъ (hard o-stem)
Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
edit- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*baka-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 48
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “bokъ boka”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[2], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “d (OSA 140; PR 137; RPT 84)”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “bok”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *bȍkъ”
Further reading
edit- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bokъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 170
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress