Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lěvakъ

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

From *lěvъ (“left”) +‎ *-akъ.

Noun

*lěvakъ m

1. left-handed

Declension

Declension of *lěvakъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lěvakъ	*lěvaka	*lěvaci
genitive	*lěvaka	*lěvaku	*lěvakъ
dative	*lěvaku	*lěvakoma	*lěvakomъ
accusative	*lěvakъ	*lěvaka	*lěvaky
instrumental	*lěvakъmь, *lěvakomь*	*lěvakoma	*lěvaky
locative	*lěvacě	*lěvaku	*lěvacěxъ
vocative	*lěvače	*lěvaka	*lěvaci

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: лева́к (levák)
  • Ukrainian: ліва́к (livák)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Middle Bulgarian: лѣвакъ (lěvakŭ)
      • Bulgarian: лева́к (levák)
    • Macedonian: левак (levak)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: лѐва̄к, љѐва̄к; лѝва̄к (dialectal)

    Latin script: lèvāk, ljèvāk; lìvāk (dialectal)

  • Slovene: lẹvák (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: levák
  • Polish: lewak; lewok (dialectal)
  • Slovak: ľavák; levák (dialectal)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Slovincian: levok

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lěvakъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 26