Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/drika

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

Dialectal variant of Proto-Slavic *drěkъ (“stem, trunk”) with semantic shift stem, beam → shaft, rail → cart. Probably akin to Lithuanian driẽktis (“pulling, stretching”).

Noun

*drika f

1. Alternative form of *drěkъ

Declension

Declension of *drika (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*drika	*dricě	*driky
genitive	*driky	*driku	*drikъ
dative	*dricě	*drikama	*drikamъ
accusative	*drikǫ	*dricě	*driky
instrumental	*drikojǫ, *drikǫ**	*drikama	*drikami
locative	*dricě	*driku	*drikasъ, *drikaxъ*
vocative	*driko	*dricě	*driky

^* -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).

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: дрика (drika, “hearse”)
  • Bulgarian: дри́ка (dríka, “funeral carriage”) (archaic, obsolete)
• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: dric (“body of a carriage”) (possibly via Hungarian)

Further reading

• “draikas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė, 2007–2012: Lie. driẽktis