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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stьklo
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Borrowed from Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃 (stikls). The original meaning was goblet, chalice which eventually shifted towards the material from which they were made. For a similar semantic development, compare Turkish cam (“glass”) < Persian جام (jâm, “cup”).
Noun
*stьklo n
- glass
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: стькло (stĭklo)
- Russian: стекло́ (stekló), скло (sklo) (with paradigm leveling)
- → Kildin Sami: сте̄клэ (st’ēkle)
- → Yakut: өстүөкүлэ (östüöküle)
- Ukrainian: скло (sklo)
- → Latvian: stikls
- Russian: стекло́ (stekló), скло (sklo) (with paradigm leveling)
- Old East Slavic: стькло (stĭklo)
- South Slavic:
- ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: стьклѣница (stĭklěnica)
- Bulgarian: стъкло́ (stǎkló), цкло (cklo)
- Macedonian: стакло (staklo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ста̀кло, скло̏, цкло̏
- Latin: stàklo, sklȍ, cklȍ
- Montenegrin (Piperi): stȁkło
- Slovene: stéklo (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Kashubian: skło, sckło
- Old Czech: stklo
- Czech: sklo
- Old Polish: śćkło, śkło
- Polish: szkło
- → Belarusian: шкло (šklo)
- → Ukrainian: шкло (šklo)
- Polish: szkło
- Slovak: sklo
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: škla
- Upper Sorbian: škla
- → Lithuanian: stiklas
- → Latvian: stikls
- →? Old Prussian: sticlo (perhaps directly from Gothic)
- → Romanian: sticlă (via some Slavic language)
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “стекло́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress