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: кола́ч (koláč)
• 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), issue 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 118
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “колач”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, 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), volume 1–4 (A – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 126