Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lukъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

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*lukъAllium cepa

Etymology

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Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (to bend). Compare Low German look, Look, German Lauch, Swedish lök.

Noun

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*lukъ m

  1. (usually uncountable) onion, leek (Allium cepa, Allium ampeloprasum and its bulb and its leaves)

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: лукъ (lukŭ, onion)
      • Old Ruthenian: лукъ (luk, onion)
        • Belarusian: лук (luk, onion) (dialectal)
        • Ukrainian: лук (luk, onion) (dialectal)
      • Russian: лук (luk, onion; garlic) (see there for further descendants)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: лоукъ (lukŭ, garlic, onion)
      Glagolitic script: ⰾⱆⰽⱏ (lukŭ, garlic, onion)
      • Russian Church Slavonic: лукъ (lukŭ)
    • Bulgarian: лук (luk, onion; garlic)
    • Macedonian: лук (luk, garlic)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: лу̏к (onion; garlic)
      Latin script: lȕk (onion; garlic)
    • Old Slovene: luk (onion)
      • Slovene: lùk (leek, onion); lòk (garlic) (dialectal)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: luk (garlic)
    • Polabian: lauk (garlic)
    • Kashubian: łëk (chives)
    • Old Polish: łuk (leek)
      • Polish: łuk (garlic; hyacinth) (regional)
    • Slovak: luk (regional)
  • Baltic:

References

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lukъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 172
  • Olander, Thomas (2001) “lukъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a (SA 147; PR 131; RPT 101)
  • Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic[2], Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 87–88
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