Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lǫkъ
Proto-SlavicEdit
EtymologyEdit
Related to the verb *lęťi (“to bend”). The noun formation also exists as Lithuanian lañkas (“bow, arc”) and Latvian loks (“bow; arch”).
NounEdit
- bow (weapon used for shooting arrows)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of *lǫ̑kъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Related termsEdit
- *lękati, *lęcati (“to set traps, to scare?”)
- *lęťi (“to bend”)
- *lękъ (“bent”)
- *lǭčìti (“to separate”)
- *lǫčьje (“rush”)
- *lǭkà (“low-lying meadow”)
- *lǫkàvъ (“curved, cunning”)
DescendantsEdit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further readingEdit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) , “лук”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubačóv, Moscow: Progress
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) , “*lǫ̑kъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 289: “m. o (c) ‘bow’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) , “lǫkъ lǫka”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “d hoop, arc; bow (NA 100; SA 22; OSA 41; PR 137)”