Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tolka
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editCognate to Latvian talka, Lithuanian talkà.
Noun
edit*tolka f
Inflection
editDeclension of *tolka (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *tolka | *tolcě | *tolky |
genitive | *tolky | *tolku | *tolkъ |
dative | *tolcě | *tolkama | *tolkamъ |
accusative | *tolkǫ | *tolcě | *tolky |
instrumental | *tolkojǫ, *tolkǫ** | *tolkama | *tolkami |
locative | *tolcě | *tolku | *tolkasъ, *tolkaxъ* |
vocative | *tolko | *tolcě | *tolky |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Related terms
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Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: тлака́ (tlaká)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: tláka (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
Further reading
edit- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “толока́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress