Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kľuka

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 *kljaukāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *klewk-eh₂, from *kle(h₂)uk-, an extended form of *(s)kleh₂w- (hook, crook, peg).

Noun

*kľùka f[1]

  1. hook

Declension

Declension of *kľùka (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *kľùka *kľùcě *kľùky
genitive *kľùky *kľùku *kľùkъ
dative *kľùcě *kľùkama *kľùkamъ
accusative *kľùkǫ *kľùcě *kľùky
instrumental *kľùkojǫ, *kľùkǭ** *kľùkama *kľùkamī
locative *kľùcě *kľùku *kľùkasъ, *kľùkaxъ*
vocative *kľùko *kľùcě *kľùky

* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: клюка (kljuka)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Latin script: kljȕka
      Cyrillic script: кљу̏ка (kljȕka)
    • Slovene: kljúka
  • West Slavic:

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kļùka”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 226:f. ā (a) ‘hook’