Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zorkъ

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 *zor- +‎ *-kъ.

Noun

*zȏrkъ m

1. sunbeam
2. look, appearance

Declension

Declension of *zorkъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*zorkъ	*zorka	*zorci
genitive	*zorka	*zorku	*zorkъ
dative	*zorku	*zorkoma	*zorkomъ
accusative	*zorkъ	*zorka	*zorky
instrumental	*zorkъmь, *zorkomь*	*zorkoma	*zorky
locative	*zorcě	*zorku	*zorcěxъ
vocative	*zorče	*zorka	*zorci

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: зо́рак (zórak)
  • Russian: зо́рок (zórok) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian:
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: зракъ (zrakŭ)
    • Bulgarian: зрак (zrak)
    • → Russian: зрак (zrak) (obsolete)
  • Macedonian: зрак (zrak)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зра̑к, зра̏ка

    Latin script: zrȃk, zrȁka

  • Slovene: zràk
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: zrak
    • Czech: zrak
  • Old Polish: zrok
    • ⇒ Polish: wzrok, wejzrok (Chełmno-Dobrzyń)
      • → Belarusian: зрок (zrok)
    • Silesian: zdrok
  • Slovak: zrak

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “зо́рок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zȏrkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 548