Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/batьko

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *batьka

Etymology

From *batь, *batę, *baťa +‎ *-ьko.

Noun

*batьko m

1. (East Slavic) father
2. (South Slavic) older brother

Declension

Declension of *batьko (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*batьko	*batьcě	*batьka
genitive	*batьka	*batьku	*batьkъ
dative	*batьku	*batьkoma	*batьkomъ
accusative	*batьko	*batьcě	*batьka
instrumental	*batьkъmь, *batьkomь*	*batьkoma	*batьky
locative	*batьcě	*batьku	*batьcěxъ
vocative	*batьko	*batьcě	*batьka

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: батько (batĭko, “father”)
    • Old Ruthenian: ба́тько (bátʹko), ба́тко (bátko, “father”)
      • Belarusian: ба́цька (bácʹka)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: ба́тько (bátʹko)
      • Ukrainian: ба́тько (bátʹko)
    • Middle Russian: ба́тько (bátʹko), ба́тко (bátko, “father; patron; priest”), ба́чько (báčʹko), ба́чко (báčko)
      • Russian: ба́тько́ (bátʹkó); ба́тька (bátʹka), ба́цько (bácʹko), ба́цка (bácka), ба́чка (báčka), бачко (bačko), ба́чкя́ (báčkjá) (dialectal)
      • → Old Polish: bajtko
        • Polish: batko, bajtko (Middle Polish)
  • Old Novgorodian: батько (batĭko, “father”)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: батко (batko)
  • Macedonian: батко (batko, “older brother”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ба̏ћко; Serbo-Croatian: ба̏тка (dialectal)

    Latin script: bȁćko; Serbo-Croatian: bȁtka (dialectal)

• West Slavic:
  • Slovak: baťko (“not young person”)

Further reading

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “батько”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 152
• Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1962–1972) “ба́тько”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, volumes 1 (А – Ґ), Winnipeg: Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, →LCCN, page 88
• Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1978), “ба́цька”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 1 (А – бячэ́йка), Minsk: Navuka i technika, page 335
• Anikin, A. E. (2007) “бáтя”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 1 (A – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 279
• Shansky, N. M. (1965) “бáтя”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, number 2 (Б), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 58
• Vasmer, Max (1964) “ба́тя”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – Д), Moscow: Progress, page 135
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ба́тя”, 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 79
• Preobrazhensky, A. G. (1910–1914) “ба́тя”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – О), numbers 1–9, Moscow: G. Lissner & D. Sobko Publishing House, page 19