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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/torkъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *tоrkʷ-ós, from the root *terkʷ- (“to turn, spin”). Akin to Albanian tjerr (“I spin”), Latin torqueō (“I twist”), Latvian tę̄rkа, Old Prussian tarkue and Sanskrit तर्कु (tarkú, “spindle”).
Noun
*tȏrkъ m
- strap, thong
- Synonym: *remy
Inflection
Declension of *torkъ (hard o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *torkъ | *torka | *torci |
Accusative | *torkъ | *torka | *torky |
Genitive | *torka | *torku | *torkъ |
Locative | *torcě | *torku | *torcěxъ |
Dative | *torku | *torkoma | *torkomъ |
Instrumental | *torkъmь, *torkomь* | *torkoma | *torky |
Vocative | *torče | *torka | *torci |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
noun
- *tъ̑rkъ
verb
- *tъrčiti
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: торокъ (torokŭ)
- Russian: торока́ (toroká)
- Ukrainian: то́рок (tórok)
- Old East Slavic: торокъ (torokŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: трак (trak)
- Macedonian: трака (traka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тра̏ка
- Latin: trȁka
- Slovene: trȃk (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: trak
- Old Polish: trok
- Polish: trok
- Slovak: trak
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: trok
- Upper Sorbian: trok
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “то́рок”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress