Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/potomъkъ

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 *po tomь +‎ *-ъkъ.

Noun

*potomъkъ m

1. descendant, scion

   Antonym: *perdъkъ

Inflection

Declension of *potomъkъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*potomъkъ	*potomъka	*potomъci
genitive	*potomъka	*potomъku	*potomъkъ
dative	*potomъku	*potomъkoma	*potomъkomъ
accusative	*potomъkъ	*potomъka	*potomъky
instrumental	*potomъkъmь, *potomъkomь*	*potomъkoma	*potomъky
locative	*potomъcě	*potomъku	*potomъcěxъ
vocative	*potomъče	*potomъka	*potomъci

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

Related terms

noun

• *potomьstvo

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: потомъкъ (potomŭkŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: пото́мокъ (potómok)
      • Belarusian: пато́мак (patómak)
      • Ukrainian: пото́мок (potómok)
    • Russian: пото́мок (potómok)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пото́мък (potómǎk)
  • Macedonian: потомок (potomok)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̀томак

    Latin script: pòtomak

  • Slovene: potómec (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: potomek
    • Czech: potomek
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): potomek
  • Polish: potomek
  • Slovak: potomok
  • Sorbian:
    • ⇒ Lower Sorbian: potomnik
    • Upper Sorbian: potomс
      • ⇒ Upper Sorbian: potomnik

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пото́мок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress