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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/perdъkъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *perdъ + *-ъkъ.
Noun
*perdъkъ m
- ancestor, forebear, forefather
- Antonym: *potomъkъ
Inflection
Declension of *perdъkъ (hard o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *perdъkъ | *perdъka | *perdъci |
Accusative | *perdъkъ | *perdъka | *perdъky |
Genitive | *perdъka | *perdъku | *perdъkъ |
Locative | *perdъcě | *perdъku | *perdъcěxъ |
Dative | *perdъku | *perdъkoma | *perdъkomъ |
Instrumental | *perdъkъmь, *perdъkomь* | *perdъkoma | *perdъky |
Vocative | *perdъče | *perdъka | *perdъci |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
adjective
- *perdьnъ
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: прѣдъкъ (prědŭkŭ)
- Glagolitic: ⱂⱃⱑⰴⱏⰽⱏ (prědŭkŭ)
- → Old Ruthenian: прѣ́докъ (prě́dok)
- Belarusian: про́дак (pródak)
- Ukrainian: пре́док (prédok)
- → Russian: пре́док (prédok)
- Bulgarian: предци pl (predci) (plurale tantum)
- Macedonian: предок (predok)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пре̏дак
- Latin: prȅdak
- ⇒ Slovene: prẹ̑dnik (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: přědek
- Czech: předek
- Old Polish: przodek
- Polish: przodek
- Slovak: predok
- Old Czech: přědek
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пре́док”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress