Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kolačь

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

Etymology

*kolo (“wheel, circle”) +‎ *-ačь, presumably due to its rounded shape.

The similarity to Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwlʾck' /⁠kulāčag⁠/, “small, round bun”) (Modern کلوچه (koluče)) and Ancient Greek κόλλιξ (kóllix, “roll or loaf of bread”) may be coincidental as it is difficult to explain through usual models of inheritance and borrowing.

Noun

*kolãčь m

1. a type of bread, pastry

Inflection

Declension of *kolãčь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kolãčь	*kolāčà	*kolāčì
genitive	*kolāčà	*kolāčù	*kolãčь
dative	*kolāčù	*kolāčèma	*kolãčemъ
accusative	*kolãčь	*kolāčà	*kolāčę̇̀
instrumental	*kolāčь̀mь, *kolāčèmь*	*kolāčèma	*kolãči
locative	*kolāčì	*kolāčù	*kolãčixъ
vocative	*kolaču	*kolāčà	*kolāčì

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: калачь (kalačĭ), колачь (kolačĭ)
    • Belarusian: кала́ч (kaláč)
    • Russian: кала́ч (kaláč)
    • Ukrainian: кала́ч (kaláč)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: кола́ч (koláč)
  • Macedonian: колач (kolač)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ко̀ла̄ч

    Latin script: kòlāč

  • Slovene: koláč
    • → Friulian: colaç
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: koláč
    • Czech: koláč
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): koláč
      • Moravian (Mistřice): kou̯áč
  • Kashubian: kołôcz
  • Polish: kołacz
  • Slovak: koláč
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kołač
    • Lower Sorbian: kółac

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Armenian: խալաճ (xalač) — Ardeal
  • → Hungarian: kalács
  • → Romanian: colac
  • → German: Tollatsch
  • → Yiddish: קוילעטש (koyletsh)

See also

• challah

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kolačь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 118
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “колач”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Skok, Petar (1971–1974) “Proto-Slavic/kolačь”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1–4 (A – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 126