< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kaka
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kākā, from Proto-Indo-European *kakka- (“to defecate”). Baltic cognates include Latvian kaka, Lithuanian kaka.
Noun
*kàka f
- excrement
Related terms
- *kàkati (“to shit, defecate”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Middle Russian: ка́ка (káka) (18ᵗʰ cent.)
- Russian: ка́ка (káka)
- Rusyn: ка́ка (káka)
- Ukrainian: ка́ка (káka), ка́ки (káky)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: ка́кало (kákalo) (dialectal)
- Middle Russian: ка́ка (káka) (18ᵗʰ cent.)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: а́ко (áko)
- Macedonian: кака (kaka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ка́ка
- Latin: káka
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ка́ка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “ка́кати”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 344
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kakati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 9 (*jьz – *klenьje), Moscow: Nauka, page 117