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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lukъ

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
*lukъ – Allium cepa

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”). Compare Low German look, Look, German Lauch, Swedish lök.

Noun

*lukъ m

  1. (usually uncountable) onion, leek (Allium cepa, Allium ampeloprasum and its bulb and its leaves)

Inflection
Declension of *lukъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *lukъ *lùka *lùci
genitive *lùka *lùku *lùkъ
dative *lùku *lùkoma *lùkomъ
accusative *lukъ *lùka *lùky
instrumental *lùkъmь, *lùkomь* *lùkoma *lùkȳ
locative *lùcě *lùku *lùcě̄xъ
vocative *lùče *lùka *lùci
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: лукъ (lukŭ, “onion”)
      • Old Ruthenian: лукъ (luk, “onion”)
        • Belarusian: лук (luk, “onion”) (dialectal)
        • Ukrainian: лук (luk, “onion”) (dialectal)
      • Russian: лук (luk, “onion; garlic”) (see there for further descendants)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: лоукъ (lukŭ, “garlic, onion”)
      Glagolitic script: ⰾⱆⰽⱏ (lukŭ, “garlic, onion”)
      • Russian Church Slavonic: лукъ (lukŭ)
    • Bulgarian: лук (luk, “onion; garlic”)
    • Macedonian: лук (luk, “garlic”)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: лу̏к (“onion; garlic”)
      Latin script: lȕk (“onion; garlic”)
    • Old Slovene: luk (“onion”)
      • Slovene: lùk (“leek, onion”); lòk (“garlic”) (dialectal)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: luk (“garlic”)
    • Polabian: lauk (“garlic”)
    • Kashubian: łëk (“chives”)
    • Old Polish: łuk (“leek”)
      • Polish: łuk (“garlic; hyacinth”) (regional)
    • Slovak: luk (regional)
  • Baltic:
    • → Latvian: loki
    • → Old Lithuanian: lūkai

References
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lukъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 172
  • Olander, Thomas (2001) “lukъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 147; PR 131; RPT 101)”
  • Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎, Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 87–88
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