Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rokъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rokъ

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

From *reťi (“to speak, say”) +‎ *-ъ.

Noun

*rȍkъ m[1][2]

1. time, term
2. (North Slavic) year

Inflection

Declension of *rȍkъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*rȍkъ	*rȍka	*rȍci
Accusative	*rȍkъ	*rȍka	*rȍky
Genitive	*rȍka	*rokù	*ròkъ
Locative	*rȍcě	*rokù	*rocě̃xъ
Dative	*rȍku	*rokomà	*rokòmъ
Instrumental	*rȍkъmь, *rȍkomь*	*rokomà	*roký
Vocative	*roče	*rȍka	*rȍci

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

Derived terms

• *obrokъ
• *sъrokъ

Related terms

• *rečenьcь (“term, deadline”)

See also

• *vetъxъ
• *godъ (“suitable time”)
• *jaro (“spring”), *vesna
• *lěto (“summer; year”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рокъ (rokŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: рокъ (rok), *рѡкъ (*rôk), *рукъ (*ruk)
      • Belarusian: рок (rok) (dated)
      • Rusyn: рук (ruk)
      • Ukrainian: рік (rik)
    • Russian: рок (rok)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: рокъ (rokŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱃⱁⰽⱏ (rokŭ)

  • Macedonian: рок (rok)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ро̏к

    Latin: rȍk

    • Kajkavian (Bednja): rȅk
  • Slovene: rọ̑k (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: rok
    • Czech: rok
      • Moravian (Mistřice): rok
  • Polish: rok
  • Slovak: rok
  • Slovincian: rʉ̀ɵ̯k
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: rok

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “рок”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “рок”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*rokъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 438: “m. o ‘time’”
2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “rọ̑k”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*rȍkъ”