Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫdъka

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

Originally a diminutive form of *ǫ̀da (“fishing rod”) +‎ *-ъka (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

*ǫ̀dъka f

1. diminutive of *ǫ̀da (“fishing rod”)

Declension

Declension of *ǫdъka (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ǫdъka	*ǫdъcě	*ǫdъky
genitive	*ǫdъky	*ǫdъku	*ǫdъkъ
dative	*ǫdъcě	*ǫdъkama	*ǫdъkamъ
accusative	*ǫdъkǫ	*ǫdъcě	*ǫdъky
instrumental	*ǫdъkojǫ, *ǫdъkǭ**	*ǫdъkama	*ǫdъkamī
locative	*ǫdъcě	*ǫdъku	*ǫdъkasъ, *ǫdъkaxъ*
vocative	*ǫdъko	*ǫdъcě	*ǫdъky

^* -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).

Related terms

• *ǫ̀dica (diminutive)
• *ǫdidlo (“staff of fishing rod”), *ǫdidlišče (“handle of fishing rod”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: ву́дка (vúdka); ву́тка (vútka), гу́тка (hútka) (dialectal)
    • Russian: у́дка (údka) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: ву́дка (vúdka); у́дка (údka) (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: wãdka
  • Polish: wędka; vůntka, vyᵉntka (dialectal)
  • Silesian: wyndka
  • Slovincian: wõdka
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: hudka

Further reading

• Zhuravlyov, A. F., Varbot, Zh. Zh., editors (2016), “*ǫdъka”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 40 (*ǫborъkъ – *pakъla), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 19