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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kljaukāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *klewk-eh₂, from *kle(h₂)uk-, an extended form of *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, crook, peg”).
Noun
*kľùka f[1]
- hook
Declension
Declension of
*kľùka (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
* -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).
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: клюка (kljuka)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kļùka”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 226: “f. ā (a) ‘hook’”