Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kyjakъ

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 *kyjь (“stick, club”) +‎ *-akъ.

Noun

*kyjakъ m^[1]

club, stick

Declension

Declension of *kyjakъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kyjakъ	*kyjaka	*kyjaci
genitive	*kyjaka	*kyjaku	*kyjakъ
dative	*kyjaku	*kyjakoma	*kyjakomъ
accusative	*kyjakъ	*kyjaka	*kyjaky
instrumental	kyjakъmь, kyjakomь^*	*kyjakoma	*kyjaky
locative	*kyjacě	*kyjaku	*kyjacěxъ
vocative	*kyjače	*kyjaka	*kyjaci

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *кꙑꙗкъ (*kyjakŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: *кїꙗкъ (*kijak)
    - Ukrainian: кия́х (kyjáx) (dialectal)
  - Russian: кия́к (kiják) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Middle Bulgarian: кы́ꙗкъ (kýjakŭ)
  - Bulgarian: ки́як (kíjak), ки́ак (kíak) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ки̏ја̄к
  
  Latin script: kȉjāk
West Slavic:
- Czech: kyjak (dialectal)
- Polish: kijak (dialectal)
- Old Slovak: kyjak
  - Pannonian Rusyn: кияк (kijak)
  - Slovak: kyjak, kijak (dialectal)
- Pomeranian:
  - Slovincian: kyjôk

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kyjakъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 255

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kyjakъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 255

[1]