Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věkъ
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Balto-Slavic *wáikas. Cognate with Lithuanian viẽkas (“power, life”), according to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to overcome”).[1]
Noun
edit*vě̑kъ m[2]
- age (period of time)
Declension
editDeclension of *vě̑kъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
or
Declension of *vě̑kъ (u-stem, accent paradigm c)
Related terms
editadjectives
Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: veac
References
edit- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1128-29”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 1128-29
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “věkъ věka/věku”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander
Further reading
edit- Nikolaev, Sergei L. (2020) «Слово о полку Игореве»: реконструкция стихотворного текста [“The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”: reconstruction of a poetic text][2] (in Russian), Moscow, Saint-Petersburg: Nestor-History, →ISBN, page 260