Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kaka

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

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kākā, from Proto-Indo-European *kakka- (“to defecate”). Baltic cognates include Latvian kaka, Lithuanian kaka.

Noun

*kàka f

1. excrement

Related terms

• *kàkati (“to shit, defecate”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Middle Russian: ка́ка (káka) (18ᵗʰ cent.)
    • Russian: ка́ка (káka)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: ка́ка (káka)
  • Ukrainian: ка́ка (káka), ка́ки (káky)
    • ⇒ Ukrainian: ка́кало (kákalo) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: а́ко (áko)
  • Macedonian: кака (kaka)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ка́ка

    Latin script: káka

• West Slavic:
  • Slovak: kaka (children term)
    • ⇒ Slovak: kakanica

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ка́ка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “ка́кати”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 344
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kakati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 9 (*jьz – *klenьje), Moscow: Nauka, page 117