Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sǫkъ

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

Cognate with Lithuanian at-šankė̃, Icelandic hár (“peg, thole pin, spiny fish”), Sanskrit शङ्कु (śaṅkú-, “pointed peg”).

Noun

*sǫkъ m

1. bough
2. knot in wood
3. splinter

Declension

Declension of *sǫ̑kъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sǫ̑kъ	*sǫ̑ka	*sǫ̑ci
genitive	*sǫ̑ka	*sǫkù	*sǫ̃kъ
dative	*sǫ̑ku	*sǫkomà	*sǫkòmъ
accusative	*sǫ̑kъ	*sǫ̑ka	*sǫ̑ky
instrumental	*sǫ̑kъmь, *sǫ̑komь*	*sǫkomà	*sǫký
locative	*sǫ̑cě	*sǫkù	*sǫcě̃xъ
vocative	*sǫče	*sǫ̑ka	*sǫ̑ci

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сѫкъ (sǫkŭ)
    • Belarusian: сук (suk)
    • Russian: сук (suk)
    • Ukrainian: сук (suk)
  • Old Novgorodian: сѫке (sǫke), соуке (suke)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: сѫкъ (sǫkŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱄⱘⰽⱏ (sǫkŭ)

  • Bulgarian: сък (sǎk), сънк (sǎnk) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: су̑к

    Latin script: sȗk

  • Slovene: sọ̑k (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: suk
    • Czech: suk
  • Polish: sęk
  • Slovak: suk
  • Slovincian: są̃k
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: suk
    • Lower Sorbian: suk

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 463
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сук”, in , Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress