Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golgolъ

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 edit

Etymology edit

By intensive reduplication from the onomatopoeic root *gol-, whence also *gȏlsъ (voice). Compare similar onomatopoetic formation in Sanskrit गर्गर (gargara, a type of musical instrument) and Proto-Slavic *kǫkoľь, *kolkolъ.

Noun edit

*golgolъ m[1][2]

  1. speech
  2. word

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глагол”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*golgolъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 205
  • Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “Proto-Slavic/golgolъ”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 229

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*golgolъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 174:m. o ‘speech, word’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “golgolъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a/b (PR 131)