Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kъlykъ

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 *kъlъ +‎ *-ykъ.

Noun

*kъlykъ m

1. fang, tusk

Declension

Declension of *kъlykъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kъlykъ	*kъlyka	*kъlyci
genitive	*kъlyka	*kъlyku	*kъlykъ
dative	*kъlyku	*kъlykoma	*kъlykomъ
accusative	*kъlykъ	*kъlyka	*kъlyky
instrumental	*kъlykъmь, *kъlykomь*	*kъlykoma	*kъlyky
locative	*kъlycě	*kъlyku	*kъlycěxъ
vocative	*kъlyče	*kъlyka	*kъlyci

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *кълꙑкъ (*kŭlykŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: *клыкъ (*klyk)
      • Belarusian: клык (klyk) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: клик (klyk), кличь (klyčʹ) (dialectal)
    • Middle Russian: клыкъ (klyk)
      • Russian: клык (klyk); клы́ка f (klýka) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: клик (klik) (obsolete); глиг (glig, “boar”) (obsolete)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: глига́н (gligán)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кли̑к

    Latin script: klȋk

  • Slovene: klíka f (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: klyk, lyk (dialectal)
  • Polish: kłyk (dialectal)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “клык”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kъlykъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 193