Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skokъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skokъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *skakas, from Proto-Indo-European *skok-ó-s (“shock, leap”), from *skek- (“to leap”). Akin to English shake and German schicken.

Noun

*skòkъ m[1]

1. leap

Declension

Declension of *skòkъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*skòkъ	*skokà	*skocì
Accusative	*skòkъ	*skokà	*skokỳ
Genitive	*skokà	*skokù	*skòkъ
Locative	*skocě̀	*skokù	*skòcěxъ
Dative	*skokù	*skokòma	*skokòmъ
Instrumental	*skokъ̀mь, *skokòmь*	*skokòma	*skòky
Vocative	*skoče	*skokà	*skocì

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

Related terms

• *skakati
• *skočiti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: скокъ (skokŭ)
    • Russian: скок (skok)
    • Ukrainian: скік (skik)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: скок (skok)
  • Macedonian: скок (skok)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ско̑к

    Latin: skȏk

  • Slovene: skȍk (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: skok
    • Czech: skok
  • Polabian: skük
  • Polish: skok
  • Slovak: skok
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: skok
    • Upper Sorbian: skok

Further reading

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

References

1. Snoj, Marko (2016), “skočīti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*skòkъ”