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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tukъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tauˀkás, from Proto-Indo-European *towh₂-k-os[1] or *towkos. Cognate with Lithuanian táukas (“tummy, abdomen”) (3rd stress pattern), Latvian tàuks (“fatty”), Old Prussian taukis (“lard”) and possibly related to Proto-Germanic *þeuhą (“thigh”).
Noun
*tȗkъ m[1][2]
- fat, lard
Inflection
Declension of *tȗkъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *tȗkъ | *tȗka | *tȗci |
| Accusative | *tȗkъ | *tȗka | *tȗky |
| Genitive | *tȗka | *tukù | *tũkъ |
| Locative | *tȗcě | *tukù | *tucě̃xъ |
| Dative | *tȗku | *tukomà | *tukòmъ |
| Instrumental | *tȗkъmь, *tȗkomь* | *tukomà | *tuký |
| Vocative | *tuče | *tȗka | *tȗci |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
See also
- *gojь (“nutrition, fattening”)
- *žirъ (“fat, stuff”)
- *lojь (“tallow”)
- *mastь (“grease, ointment”), *maslo (“butter”)
- *sadlo (“lard”)
- *skormъ (“fat”)
Derived terms
- *tuča? (if not a dialectal reflex of *tǫča)
- Slovene: túča (“fat”) (tonal orthography) (dialectal)
- *tučьnъ (“rich, abundant”)
- *tučьnostь (“richness, obesity”)
Related terms
- *tyti (“to gain weight”)
- *tulovъ, *tulubъ (“torso”)
- *tǫča (“precipitation, flood?”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: тукъ (tukŭ)
- Belarusian:
- Russian: тук (tuk)
- Ukrainian: тук (tuk)
- Old East Slavic: тукъ (tukŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: тоукъ (tukŭ)
- Bulgarian: тук (tuk) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: тук (tuk)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ту̏к, ту̑к
- Latin: tȕk, tȗk
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: tuk
- Czech: tuk
- Old Polish: tuk
- Polish: tuk
- Slovak: tuk
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: tuk
- Lower Sorbian: tuk
- Old Czech: tuk
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “тук”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- “taukas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*tȗkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 500: “m. o (c) ‘fat’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “tukъ tuka”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c fat (NA 134, 139, 143; SA 26, 42, 94)”