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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vьlkъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wilkás, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.
Noun
*vь̑lkъ m[1][2][3]
- wolf
Declension
Declension of *vь̑lkъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *vь̑lkъ | *vь̑lka | *vь̑lci |
Accusative | *vь̑lkъ | *vь̑lka | *vь̑lky |
Genitive | *vь̑lka | *vьlkù | *vь̃lkъ |
Locative | *vь̑lcě | *vьlkù | *vьlcě̃xъ |
Dative | *vь̑lku | *vьlkomà | *vьlkòmъ |
Instrumental | *vь̑lkъmь, *vь̑lkomь* | *vьlkomà | *vьlký |
Vocative | *vьlče | *vь̑lka | *vь̑lci |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *vьlčica (“she-wolf”)
- *vьlkolakъ (“werewolf”)
- *vьlčiťь (“a small wolf”)
- *vьlčьjь (“lupine”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: вълкъ (vŭlkŭ)
- Old Ruthenian: вовкъ (vovk), во́лкъ (vólk); во́лъкъ (vólk), въ́лкъ (volk), влъ́къ (vlok); во́въкъ (vóvk)
- Belarusian: воўк (voŭk)
- Rusyn: вовк (vovk)
- Ukrainian: вовк (vovk); вівк (vivk) (dialectal)
- Russian: волк (volk)
- Old Ruthenian: вовкъ (vovk), во́лкъ (vólk); во́лъкъ (vólk), въ́лкъ (volk), влъ́къ (vlok); во́въкъ (vóvk)
- Old East Slavic: вълкъ (vŭlkŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: влькъ (vlĭkŭ)
- Glagolitic: ⰲⰾⱐⰽⱏ (vlĭkŭ)
- Bulgarian: вълк (vǎlk), влък (vlǎk) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: волк (volk)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ву̑к
- Latin: vȗk
- Slavomolisano: vuk
- Slovene: vȏłk (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: vlk
- Czech: vlk
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): vlk
- Moravian (Mistřice): vlk
- Czech: vlk
- Kashubian: wôłk, wéłk, wełk
- Polabian: våuk
- Polish: wilk
- Slovak: vlk
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: wjelk
- Lower Sorbian: wjelk
- Old Czech: vlk
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “волк”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vь̑lkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 537: “m. o (c) ‘wolf ’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “vьlkъ vьlka”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c wolf (NA 99f.; SA 147, 167; PR 137)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “vọ̑lk”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*vь̑lkъ”