Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/volkъ

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 *walkas, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)wolk-o, equivalent *velkti (“to drag”) +‎ *-ъ. Cognate with Latvian vàlka (“draught”), Lithuanian valkà (“draught”), Ancient Greek ὁλκός (holkós, “windlass”). Compare German Zug for similar semantic development.

Noun

*vȏlkъ m

portage?, dragnet?

Inflection

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

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*vȏlkъ	*vȏlka	*vȏlci
Accusative	*vȏlkъ	*vȏlka	*vȏlky
Genitive	*vȏlka	*volkù	*võlkъ
Locative	*vȏlcě	*volkù	*volcě̃xъ
Dative	*vȏlku	*volkomà	*volkòmъ
Instrumental	vȏlkъmь, vȏlkomь^*	*volkomà	*volký
Vocative	*volče	*vȏlka	*vȏlci

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

Related terms

*velťi
*volka (“place where something is drawn, pulled”)

Derived terms

*obolkъ

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: волокъ (volokŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: волокъ (volok)
  - Russian: во́лок (vólok)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: влак (vlak)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: вла̑к
  Latin: vlȃk
- Slovene: vlak
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: vlak
  - Czech: vlak
- Old Polish: włok
  - Polish: włok
- Slovak: vlak

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vȏlkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 526
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “во́лок”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress