Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pakъ

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.

Either formed as *pa- (“later”) +‎ *-kъ, in the same manner as *jakъ (“such”), *kakъ (“how”), *takъ (“thus”) from *jь (“this here”), *kъjь (“who, which”), *tъ (“this”), or a back-formation from *opakъ (“reverse, the other way round”) with dropped *o-.

*pakъ

1. again, once more
2. yet

• *vьśe paky (“all the same”)
• *ni paky (“neither”)
• *pakъ byti (“over again, as result of anastasis”)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: пакъ (pakŭ), пакꙑ (paky)

    ⇒ Russian: пак (pak) (dialectal, archaic)

    ⇒ Ukrainian: пак (pak) (archaic)

  • Bulgarian: пак (pak), dial. паки (paki)
  • Macedonian: пак (pak)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: па̏к

    Latin script: pȁk

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pak
    • Czech: pak
  • Lower Sorbian: pak

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “опак”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пак”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 14