Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slǫka

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *slankāˀ. Cognate with Latvian slùoka (“snipe”), Lithuanian slanka (“snipe”), Old Prussian slanke (“snipe”).

Noun

*slǫ̀ka f

1. snipe, woodcock

Declension

Declension of *slǫ̀ka (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*slǫ̀ka	*slǫ̀cě	*slǫ̀ky
genitive	*slǫ̀ky	*slǫ̀ku	*slǫ̀kъ
dative	*slǫ̀cě	*slǫ̀kama	*slǫ̀kamъ
accusative	*slǫ̀kǫ	*slǫ̀cě	*slǫ̀ky
instrumental	*slǫ̀kojǫ, *slǫ̀kǭ**	*slǫ̀kama	*slǫ̀kamī
locative	*slǫ̀cě	*slǫ̀ku	*slǫ̀kasъ, *slǫ̀kaxъ*
vocative	*slǫ̀ko	*slǫ̀cě	*slǫ̀ky

^* -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

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: слу́ка (slúka)
  • Ukrainian: слу́ква (slúkva)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: шљу̏ка

    Latin script: šljuka

  • Slovene: sloka
  • Macedonian: шлука (šluka)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: sluka
    • Czech: sluka
  • Polish: słonka
  • Slovak: sluka

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: szalonka

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*slǫ̀ka”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 454
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “слу́ка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress