Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/syrovatъka

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

Distorted by folk etymology – descendants distorted it further; there are many regional variants not of all of which are listed in the descendant table below. Explanations:

• by surface *syrъ +‎ *-ovъ +‎ *-atъ +‎ *-ka
• from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“related to binding”) and thus cognate to Latin serum (“whey”) and Ancient Greek ὁρός (horós, “whey”)
• *syrъ +‎ *voda
• borrowed from a reflex of Turkic *yograt, variant of *yogurt, in Yakut суорат (suorat), suffixed with +‎ *-ka after borrowing.

Noun

*syrovatъka f

1. whey

Declension

Declension of *syrovatъka (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*syrovatъka	*syrovatъcě	*syrovatъky
genitive	*syrovatъky	*syrovatъku	*syrovatъkъ
dative	*syrovatъcě	*syrovatъkama	*syrovatъkamъ
accusative	*syrovatъkǫ	*syrovatъcě	*syrovatъky
instrumental	*syrovatъkojǫ, *syrovatъkǫ**	*syrovatъkama	*syrovatъkami
locative	*syrovatъcě	*syrovatъku	*syrovatъkasъ, *syrovatъkaxъ*
vocative	*syrovatъko	*syrovatъcě	*syrovatъky

^* -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

dominant variants are listed in the standard font size, dialectal forms smaller

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: сыро́ватка (syróvatka), сырава́тка (syravátka), сы́ўвратка (sýŭvratka), сыро́ветка (syróvjetka)
  • Russian: сы́воротка (sývorotka), сы́роватка (sýrovatka)
  • Ukrainian: сиро́ватка (syróvatka), сирва́тка (syrvátka), сирво́тка (syrvótka)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: сурова́тка (surovátka), суръва́тка (surǎvátka), сурава́тка (suravátka), сурува́тка (suruvátka), сирова́тка (sirovátka), сурва́тка (survátka), сиро́тка (sirótka)
  • Macedonian: сурутка (surutka)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: су̏рутка, си̏рутка, суру̀тка, си̏ротка, си́роватка, сјеротка, серотка, сиротва, су̏ротва

    Latin script: sȕrutka, sȉrutka, surȕtka, sȉrotka, sírovatka, sjerotka, serotka, sirotva, sȕrotva

  • Slovene: sírotka, síratka, sírotev
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: syrovátka
    • Czech: syrovátka
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): syrovátka
  • Old Polish: syrwatka
    • Polish: serwatka, serwotka, seyrwatka, syrwotka
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: syrowatka, syrwatka
    • Lower Sorbian: serowatka, srowatka
  • Slovak: srvátka, servátka, sirvátka, srovátka, sirovátka, sarvátka
• → Hungarian: szurutyka

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “Proto-Slavic/syrovatъka”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 542
• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “сирова̀тка”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 694
• Munkácsi, Bernhard (1898) “Die Anfänge der ungarisch-slavischen ethnischen Berührung”, in Die Donauländer. Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, volume 1, pages 419–420