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Proto-Slavic
Alternative reconstructions
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Balto-Slavic *píkis, *píkulas, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“pitch”) or alternatively connected to *pey(H)- (“fat”). Cognate with Old Prussian pyculs (“hell”) (possibly a Polish borrowing) and akin to Latvian piķis (“pitch”), Lithuanian pìkis (“pitch”) (sometimes considered Germanic borrowings); Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch”), Latin pix (“pitch”). A borrowing from Latin picula (“pitch”) is not excluded.
Noun
*pьkъ̀lъ m[2][3]
- pitch, resin
- Synonym: *smola
- (by extension) hell, inferno
Declension
Declension of
*pьkъ̀lъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “pikis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 355
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пе́кло”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “пъкъл”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 41
References
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “pьklъ pьkla”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b hell (NA 114)”
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pьcьlъ; *pьkъlъ; *pьkъlo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 426: “(b) ‘pitch, hell’”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “pekel”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *pьkъlъ̏”