Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/loťika

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

Borrowed in the 7^th–8^th century from the Dalmatian version of Latin lactūca. Borrowed into East Slavic only by horticulturalists in late Medieval times as Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian лату́к (latúk).

Noun

*loťika f

salad plant from the Cichorieae tribe of the Asteraceae
1. lettuce (Lactuca spp.)
2. nipplewort (Lapsana spp.)

Inflection

Declension of *loťika (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*loťika	*loťicě	*loťiky
Accusative	*loťikǫ	*loťicě	*loťiky
Genitive	*loťiky	*loťiku	*loťikъ
Locative	*loťicě	*loťiku	loťikasъ, loťikaxъ^*
Dative	*loťicě	*loťikama	*loťikamъ
Instrumental	loťikojǫ, loťikǫ^**	*loťikama	*loťikami
Vocative	*loťiko	*loťicě	*loťiky

^* -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

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: лоштика (loštika)
- Bulgarian: лоштика (loštika) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: лоштика (loštika) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ло̀ћика
  Latin: lòćika
  - → Albanian: leqikë, loçike
- Slovene: ločíka, ločičje
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: locika
  - Czech: locika, locyka
- Old Polish: łoczyga, łocyga
  - Polish: łoczyga
    - → Russian: лочи́га (ločíga)
- Slovak: locika

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*loktika”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 7
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “лочи́га”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress