Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/olkati

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.

Per Derksen, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *álˀktei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁olHk-, with the second laryngeal required to account for the acute tone in Balto-Slavic; but perhaps more commonly reconstructed as coming from Proto-Indo-European *h₁elḱ- (e.g. Rasmussen (p. 199) reconstructs *h₁e-h₁olk- > Proto-Balto-Slavic *ōlk-), compare Proto-Indo-European *h₁élḱos (“sore, ulcer”). Cognate with Lithuanian álkti (“to be hungry”) (1sg. álkstu, 1sg. past álkau), Latvian al̂kt (“to be hungry”) (1sg. al̂kstu), Old Prussian alkīns (“sober, skinny”), Old High German ilgi (“hunger, gnashing of the teeth”), probably also Old Norse illr (“evil”) < Proto-Germanic *ilhilaz.

*òlkati impf

1. to be hungry

• *òlčьnъ (“hungry”)
• *òlkomъ (“greedy”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лакати (lakati, “to crave”)
    • Russian: лака́ть (lakátʹ, “to crave”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: алъкати (alŭkati, “to be hungry, to fast”); лакати (lakati, “to be hungry, to fast”)

    Glagolitic:

    • → Old East Slavic: алкати (alkati, “to crave”), алъкати (alŭkati)
      • Russian: алка́ть (alkátʹ, “to crave, to hunger for; (obsolete) to be hungry”)
  • Slovene: lákati (“to be hungry, to be greedy, to starve”) (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lákati (“to crave”)
  • Polish: łaknąć (“to feel hunger for, to crave”)
  • Slovak: lákať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: łakaś (“to show desire, to stalk”)

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*òlkati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 367
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “алка́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ла́кать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Rasmussen, J.E. (1999) “Stray Indo-European notes”, in Selected papers on Indo-European linguistics. With a selection on comparative Eskimo linguistics, volume I, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, pages 199–205
• Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*olkati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 57