Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stroka

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.

Probably from a k-extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“stern, rigid”), originally meaning “pricking (on a skewer)” (per Vasmer). Akin to Latvian stracis (“moment”).

*strokà f

1. row, array, string

   Synonyms: *rędъ, *nizъ

2. (by extension) linear arrangment, pattern

• *stročiti (“to stitch”)
• *strokatъ (“alternating, occuring in pattern; motley (for coloration)”)
• *strokovъ, *stročьnъ

• *stьrčiti (“to protrude, to be erect”)
• *strěkati (“to throb, to pound”), *strikati (“to slaughter”)
• *stьrkъ (“stork”) (possibly)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: строка (stroka)
    • Russian: строка́ (stroká), стро́чка (stróčka)
    • Ukrainian: строка́ (stroká), стрі́чка (stríčka)
• West Slavic:
  • Middle Polish: stroka (“mark, pattern”)
    • → Belarusian: страка́ (straká, “belt”)
    • → Ukrainian: строка́ (stroká, “band, ribbon”)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “строка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “строка¹”, in Етимологічний словник української мови (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 448