Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jьkati

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.

Onomatopoeic

*jьkati

1. to hiccup

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: *ика́ти (*ikáti)
    • Belarusian: і́каць (íkacʹ)
    • Ukrainian: гика́ти (hykáty), іка́ти (ikáty), и́кати (ýkaty)
  • Russian: ика́ть (ikátʹ); ёкать (jókatʹ) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: и́кам (íkam) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: ика (ika)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: икати (rare, obsolete)

    Latin script: ikati (rare, obsolete)

  • Slovene: hȋkati, íkati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: jíkat
  • Polish: ikać (obsolete)
  • Slovak: ikať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hikać, jukać
    • Lower Sorbian: hykaś

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*jьkati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 215
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ика́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress