Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tokъ

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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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *takas, from Proto-Indo-European *tokʷos, from *tekʷ- (to run, flow). Equivalent to *teťi (to flow, run) +‎ *-ъ.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian tãkas (footpath, path), Latvian taks (footpath, path)

Indo-European cognates include Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬐𐬀 (taka, course)

Noun

*tȍkъ m[1]

  1. current, course, stream

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: токъ (tokŭ)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: tok
    • Old Polish: tok
    • Slovak: tok
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: tok

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ток”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “течь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 243
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “токъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 973

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*tȏkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 494