Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bokъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bokъ

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

If the original meaning was "rib", the word is cognate with Latin baculum, Ancient Greek βακτηρία (baktēría), Proto-Celtic *bakkos (“hook”), presumably from Proto-Indo-European *bak-.[1]

Kroonen, as usual, considers a Germanic borrowing: from Proto-West Germanic *bakō (“back”).[2] Vasmer dismisses this possibility for phonetic and semantic reasons.

Noun

*bokъ m[3]

1. side

Declension

Declension of *bokъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*bokъ	*boka	*boci
Accusative	*bokъ	*boka	*boky
Genitive	*boka	*boku	*bokъ
Locative	*bocě	*boku	*bocěxъ
Dative	*boku	*bokoma	*bokomъ
Instrumental	*bokъmь, *bokomь*	*bokoma	*boky
Vocative	*boče	*boka	*boci

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Belarusian: бокъ (bok)
    • Belarusian: бок (bok)
  • Russian: бок (bok)
  • Ukrainian: бік (bik)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: хълбок (hǎlbok), бок (bok) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: бок (bok)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: бо̑к

    Latin: bȏk

  • Slovene: bòk
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: bok
    • Czech: bok
      • Moravian (Mistřice): bok
  • Polish: bok
  • Slovak: bok
  • Slovincian: bʉ̀ɵ̯k
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: bok
    • Upper Sorbian: bok

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bokъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 170
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бок”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бок”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
2. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*baka-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 48
3. Olander, Thomas (2001), “bokъ boka”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “d (OSA 140; PR 137; RPT 84)”