Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kľučь

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kljaukjas, from Proto-Indo-European *klewk-yo-s, from *kle(h₂)uk-, an extended form of *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, key, peg”). Equivalent to *kľuti (“to peck, to prickle”) +‎ *-čь. Cognate with Latin clāvis (“key”).

Noun

*kľũčь m

1. key

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kľũčь	*kľūčà	*kľūčì
genitive	*kľūčà	*kľūčù	*kľũčь
dative	*kľūčù	*kľūčèma	*kľũčemъ
accusative	*kľũčь	*kľūčà	*kľūčę̇̀
instrumental	*kľūčь̀mь, *kľūčèmь*	*kľūčèma	*kľũči
locative	*kľūčì	*kľūčù	*kľũčixъ
vocative	*kľuču	*kľūčà	*kľūčì

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

Derived terms

• *kľučiti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ключь (ključĭ)
    • Belarusian: ключ (ključ)
    • Russian: ключ (ključ)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: ключ (ključ)
    • Ukrainian: ключ (ključ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: ключь (ključĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰽⰾⱓⱍⱐ (ključĭ)

    • Bulgarian: ключ (ključ)
    • Macedonian: клуч (kluč)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кљу̑ч

    Latin script: kljȗč

  • Slovene: kljúč (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kľúč
    • Czech: klíč
  • Old Polish: klucz
    • Polish: klucz
    • Silesian: klucz
  • Slovak: kľúč
  • Polabian: kľauc
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: klucz
    • Slovincian: klúcz
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kluč
    • Lower Sorbian: kluc

• → Albanian: kyç
• → Hungarian: kulcs