Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tukъ

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tauˀkás, from Proto-Indo-European *towh₂-k-os^[1] or *towkos. Cognate with Lithuanian táukas (“tummy, abdomen”) (3rd stress pattern), Latvian tàuks (“fatty”), Old Prussian taukis (“lard”) and possibly related to Proto-Germanic *þeuhą (“thigh”).

*tȗkъ m^[1][2]

1. fat, lard

• *tuča? (if not a dialectal reflex of *tǫča)
  • Slovene: túča (“fat”) (tonal orthography) (dialectal)
• *tučьnъ (“rich, abundant”)
  • *tučьnostь (“richness, obesity”)

• *tyti (“to gain weight”)
• *tulovъ, *tulubъ (“torso”)
• *tǫča (“precipitation, flood?”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: тукъ (tukŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: тукъ (tuk)
      • Belarusian: тук (tuk)
      • Ukrainian: тук (tuk)
    • Russian: тук (tuk)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: тоукъ (tukŭ)
  • Bulgarian: тук (tuk) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: тук (tuk)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ту̏к, ту̑к

    Latin script: tȕk, tȗk

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: tuk
    • Czech: tuk
  • Old Polish: tuk
    • Polish: tuk
  • Slovak: tuk
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: tuk
    • Lower Sorbian: tuk

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тук”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• “taukas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012