Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orkyta

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orkyta

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

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Compare Latvian ērkšķis, Ancient Greek ἄρκευθος (árkeuthos).

Noun

*orkyta f

1. willow?

Inflection

Declension of *orkyta (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*orkyta	*orkytě	*orkyty
Accusative	*orkytǫ	*orkytě	*orkyty
Genitive	*orkyty	*orkytu	*orkytъ
Locative	*orkytě	*orkytu	*orkytasъ, *orkytaxъ*
Dative	*orkytě	*orkytama	*orkytamъ
Instrumental	*orkytojǫ, *orkytǫ**	*orkytama	*orkytami
Vocative	*orkyto	*orkytě	*orkyty

^* -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

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: раки́та (rakíta)
  • Ukrainian: роки́та (rokýta)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ракита (rakita)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ра̀кита

    Latin: ràkita

  • Slovene: rakȋta (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: rokyta (obsolete)
  • Polabian: rükå᾽itа
  • Polish: rokita
  • Slovak: rakyta
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: rokot m
    • Lower Sorbian: rokita

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “раки́та”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress