Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jakъ

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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

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Etymology

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From *ja (this) +‎ *-kъ. Compare *kakъ, *takъ etc.[1]

Alternative forms

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  • *akъ (The Slovak form and some material from *jako (how) may point to a variant without j.)

Determiner

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*jakъ[2][3]

  1. of this kind
    Synonym: *kakъ
  2. of what/which kind (interrogative, relative)
    Synonym: *kakъ

Declension

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Derived terms

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See also

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Descendants

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  • East Slavic:
    • Old Ruthenian: ꙗкїй (jakij), ꙗки (jaki), єкїй (jekij)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: ꙗкъ (jakŭ)
      Glagolitic script: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: як (jak, strong)
    • Macedonian: јак (jak, strong, fertile)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ја̑к (strong)
      Latin script: jȃk (strong)
    • Slovene: jȃk (strong, prominent, neat) (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*jakъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 171

References

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  1. ^ Antoine Meillet (1934) Общеславянский язык (in Russian), 2nd edition, translated from French, Moscow: Прогресс, published 2001, →ISBN, page 354
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*akъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 28:prn. ‘such as’
  3. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “jakъ jaka jako”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c (SA 36, 109, 200; PR 139)