Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/makъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *māken (ЭССЯ) or *meh₂kos (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?); further etymology is uncertain. Possibly ultimately a (substrate) Mediterranean word. Morphologically equivalent to *majati (“fig. to enchant, to charm”) + *-kъ (cf Bulgarian омайниче (“avens”)), however, it is uncertain if the two lemmas are semantically related.
Cognate with Ancient Greek μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”) (Doric μάκων (mákōn)), Old Irish meccun (“carrot, parsnip”), Irish meacan, Proto-Germanic *mōhô (“poppy”) (> Old High German māho, mago, Middle High German mage, German Mohn, Old Saxon maho).
- Borrowed from Germanic: Lithuanian aguonà, maguonà, Latvian magone
- Borrowed from Baltic: Estonian magun, Livonian maggon
Noun
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *màkъ | *màka | *màci |
| genitive | *màka | *màku | *màkъ |
| dative | *màku | *màkoma | *màkomъ |
| accusative | *màkъ | *màka | *màky |
| instrumental | *màkъmь, *màkomь* | *màkoma | *màkȳ |
| locative | *màcě | *màku | *màcě̄xъ |
| vocative | *màče | *màka | *màci |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
See also
Derived terms
- Nouns:
- *makuxъ/*makuxa
- *makuša
- *makušьka
- Adjectives:
- *makovьnъ
- *makovьnikъ
- *makovьnica
- *makovъ
- *makovьje
- *makovišče
- *makovina, *makovinьje
- *makovica
- *makovъka
- *makovьcь
- *makovьnъ
- Compounds:
- *makoluskъ/*makoluščь
- *makogonъ
- *makovьrtъ
- *makotręsъ
- *makotrǫsъ
- *makodera
- *makotira
- *makoterъ/*makoterь
- *makotьrъ/*makotьra
- *makotьrtь
Descendants
- Church Slavonic: макъ (makŭ)
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- → Old Prussian: moke (“poppy”) (probably from Polish)
- → Greek: μάκος (mákos)
- → Romanian: mac
- → Hungarian: mák
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мак”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “мак”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 503
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*makъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 149
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*màkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 299: “m. o (a) ‘poppy’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “makъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 131; RPT 99, 101)”
- ^ Kapović, Mate (2007) “The Development of Proto-Slavic Quantity”, in Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch[2], University of Vienna, page 7: “*ma̋kъ”