Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golgolъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golgolъ

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

By intensive reduplication from the onomatopoeic root *gol-, whence also *gȏlsъ (“voice”). Compare similar onomatopoetic formation in Sanskrit गर्गर (gargara, “a type of musical instrument”) and Proto-Slavic *kǫkoľь, *kolkolъ.

Noun

*golgolъ m[1][2]

1. speech
2. word

Declension

Declension of *golgolъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*golgolъ	*golgola	*golgoli
Accusative	*golgolъ	*golgola	*golgoly
Genitive	*golgola	*golgolu	*golgolъ
Locative	*golgolě	*golgolu	*golgolěxъ
Dative	*golgolu	*golgoloma	*golgolomъ
Instrumental	*golgolъmь, *golgolomь*	*golgoloma	*golgoly
Vocative	*golgole	*golgola	*golgoli

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

Derived terms

• *golgolati (“speak”)
• *golgolěti
• *golgoliti

Descendants

• East Slavic: гологолъ (gologolŭ)
  • Russian: *гологол (> голого́лить (gologólitʹ))
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: глаголъ (glagolŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⱏ (glagolŭ)

    • → Russian: глаго́л (glagól)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: glȁgol
  • Bulgarian: глагул (glagul, “speech”) (dialectal), глагор (glagor, “voice”)
  • Macedonian: глагол (glagol, “speech, talk”) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)

    Cyrillic: гла́гољ

    Latin: glágolj

  • Slovene: glágol (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hlahol
  • Polish: Głogoły, Głogolice (place names)
  • Slovak: hlahol

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “глагол”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*golgolъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 205
• Gluhak, Alemko (1993) Hrvatski etimološki rječnik (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, page 229f

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*golgolъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 174: “m. o ‘speech, word’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “golgolъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a/b (PR 131)”