достоканъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic dialectal dostaqan (compare Chagatai ﻃﺎﺴﻄﺎﻜﺎﻥ (tostakan, “wooden bowl”), Kazakh тостаған (tostağan, “wooden cup”), Tatar тустыган (tustığan, “cup”), Bashkir туҫтаҡ (tuśtaq, “cup for drinking koumiss”)), borrowed from dialectal Persian داستارخان (dostorxun), داستارخون (dâstarxan), standard Persian دوستگان (dustgân), دوستکان (dustkân, “beloved; wine that is drunk with one's beloved; big drinking cup”), from دوستکام (dustkâm, “beloved”), from دوست (dôst) + کام (kâm).

Pronunciation

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /dɔstɔˈkɑnʊ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /dɔstɔˈkanʊ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /dɔstɔˈkan/
• Hyphenation: до‧сто‧ка‧нъ

Noun

достоканъ (dostokanŭ) m

1. drinking vessel, glass

Declension

Declension of достоканъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	достоканъ dostokanŭ	достокана dostokana	достокани dostokani
Genitive	достокана dostokana	достокану dostokanu	достоканъ dostokanŭ
Dative	достокану dostokanu	достоканома dostokanoma	достоканомъ dostokanomŭ
Accusative	достоканъ dostokanŭ	достокана dostokana	достоканꙑ dostokany
Instrumental	достоканъмь dostokanŭmĭ	достоканома dostokanoma	достоканꙑ dostokany
Locative	достоканѣ dostokaně	достокану dostokanu	достоканѣхъ dostokaněxŭ
Vocative	достокане dostokane	достокана dostokana	достокани dostokani

Descendants

• Old Ruthenian: достака́нъ (dostakán) (rare)
• Middle Russian: достака́нъ (dostakán), достока́нъ (dostokán)
  • ⇒ Middle Russian: стака́нъ (stakán), стока́нъ (stokán) (17ᵗʰ cent.) (via contraction)
    • Russian: стака́н (stakán) (see there for further descendants); стока́н (stokán) (dialectal)
      • → Belarusian: стака́н (stakán)
      • → Ukrainian: стака́н (stakán)

Further reading

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “достоканъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 715
• Avanesov, R. I., editor (1990), “достоканъ”, in Словарь древнерусского языка (XI–XIV вв.): в 10 т. [Dictionary of the Old Russian Language (11ᵗʰ–14ᵗʰ cc.): in 10 vols]‎^[2] (in Russian), volumes 3 (добродѣтельно – изжечисѧ), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 71
• Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1977), “достоканъ¹ (достаканъ)”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.]‎^[3] (in Russian), numbers 4 (г – дяфинъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 338
• Krysko, V. B., editor (2006), “стаканъ, стоканъ”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.]‎^[4] (in Russian), numbers 27 (спасъ – старицынъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 191