тълкъ

See also: тлъкъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tъlkъ, from Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ-. Compare Latin loquor.

Noun

тълкъ (tŭlkŭ) m

1. interpreter
2. interpretation, explanation

Descendants

• Belarusian: толк (tolk)
• Russian: толк (tolk)
  • → Estonian: tõlk
  • → Finnish: tolkku
  • → Ingrian: tolkku
  • → Kildin Sami: то̄ӆӆк (tōl̥l̥k)
  • → Votic: tolkku
• Ukrainian: товк (tovk)
• → Latvian: tulks
• → Livonian: tulk
• → Lithuanian: tùlkas
• → Middle Low German: tolk
  • → Dutch: tolk
    • Afrikaans: tolk
      • → Fanagalo: tolik (or via Zulu)
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: tolak
    • → Caribbean Javanese: toleg
  • → Old Norse: tulkr
    • Icelandic: túlkur
    • Faroese: tulkur
    • Norwegian: tolk
    • Old Swedish: tolker
      • Swedish: tolk
      • → Finnish: tulkki
    • Danish: tolk
    • →? Middle English: tulk, tulke, tolke

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “толк”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “толк”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 248