Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jьzokъ

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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

Archaic formation from *jьz +‎ *ok- +‎ *-ъ. Root, from which comes *oko (eye), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ak- (eye), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (eye; to see).

Adjective

*jьzokъ[1]

  1. (one who) eyes outward, goggle-eyed; cross-eyed
    1. (figuratively) grasshopper (bug-eyed insect)
      1. (figuratively) June (based on a typical summer insect)

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Ukrainian: зо́ки (zóky, cross-eyed) (dialectal)
    • Old East Slavic: изокъ m (izokŭ, grasshopper; June)
    • Middle Russian: Зокій (Zokij) (personal proper name)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Glagolitic script: ⰻⰸⱁⰽⱏ m (izokŭ, June)
      Old Cyrillic script: изокъ m (izokŭ, June)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: izok m (June), zok
    • Old Polish: zok m (June)

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*jьzokъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 9 (*jьz – *klenьje), Moscow: Nauka, page 55