Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stьklo

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.

Borrowed from Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃 (stikls). The original meaning was goblet, chalice which eventually shifted towards the material from which they were made. For a similar semantic development, compare Turkish cam (“glass”) < Persian جام (jâm, “cup”).

*stьklo n

1. glass

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: стькло (stĭklo)
    • Old Ruthenian: скло (sklo)
      • Ukrainian: скло (sklo)
    • Russian: стекло́ (stekló), скло (sklo) — dialectal (with paradigm leveling)
      • → Even: стекло (steklo)
      • → Kildin Sami: сте̄клэ (stiekle)
      • → Yakut: өстүөкүлэ (östüöküle)
    • → Latvian: stikls
• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: стьклѣница (stĭklěnica)
  • Bulgarian: стъкло́ (stǎkló), цкло (cklo)
  • Macedonian: стакло (staklo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ста̀кло, скло̏, цкло̏

    Latin script: stàklo, sklȍ, cklȍ

    • Montenegrin (Piperi): stȁkło
  • Slovene: stéklo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: stklo
    • Czech: sklo
  • Kashubian: skło, sckło
  • Old Polish: śćkło, śkło
    • Polish: szkło
      • → Old Ruthenian: шкло (šklo)
        • Belarusian: шкло (šklo)
        • Ukrainian: шкло (šklo)
  • Slovak: sklo
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: škla
    • Upper Sorbian: škla

• → Lithuanian: stiklas
• → Latvian: stikls
• →? Old Prussian: sticlo (perhaps directly from Gothic)
• → Romanian: sticlă (via some Slavic language)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стекло́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress