Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věko

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Baltic cognates include Latvian vâks (“lid, eyelid”), Lithuanian vókas (“eyelid, envelope”).

Noun

*věko n

1. lid
2. eyelid

Declension

Declension of *věko (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*věko	*vě̀cě	*vě̀ka
genitive	*vě̀ka	*vě̀ku	*vě̀kъ
dative	*vě̀ku	*vě̀koma	*vě̀komъ
accusative	*věko	*vě̀cě	*vě̀ka
instrumental	*vě̀kъmь, *vě̀komь*	*vě̀koma	*vě̀kȳ
locative	*vě̀cě	*vě̀ku	*vě̀cě̄xъ
vocative	*věko	*vě̀cě	*vě̀ka

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вѣко (věko)
    • Old Ruthenian: вѣко (věko)
      • Belarusian: ве́ка (vjéka)
      • Ukrainian: віко (viko)
    • Russian: ве́ко (véko)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: вѣко (věko)
  • Slovene: véka (tonal orthography), véko (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vieko
    • Czech: víko
      • Moravian (Mistřice): vjeko
  • Polish: wieko
  • Slovak: veko
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wjeko
    • Lower Sorbian: wjeko

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 519
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ве́ко”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress