Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zorkъ

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 *zor- +‎ *-kъ.

Noun

*zȏrkъ m

sunbeam
look, appearance

Declension

Declension of *zorkъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*zorkъ	*zorka	*zorci
genitive	*zorka	*zorku	*zorkъ
dative	*zorku	*zorkoma	*zorkomъ
accusative	*zorkъ	*zorka	*zorky
instrumental	zorkъmь, zorkomь^*	*zorkoma	*zorky
locative	*zorcě	*zorku	*zorcěxъ
vocative	*zorče	*zorka	*zorci

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: зо́рак (zórak)
- Russian: зо́рок (zórok) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian:
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: зракъ (zrakŭ)
  - Bulgarian: зрак (zrak)
  - → Russian: зрак (zrak) (obsolete)
- Macedonian: зрак (zrak)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: зра̑к, зра̏ка
  
  Latin script: zrȃk, zrȁka
- Slovene: zràk
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: zrak
  - Czech: zrak
- Old Polish: zrok
  - ⇒ Polish: wzrok, wejzrok (Chełmno-Dobrzyń)
    - → Belarusian: зрок (zrok)
  - Silesian: zdrok
- Slovak: zrak

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “зо́рок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zȏrkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 548