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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buky

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 a Germanic language, possibly Gothic; compare Proto-Germanic *bōkijǭ (“beech”).

Old Church Slavonic боукꙑ (buky) is the name of the second letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets, and in an extended meaning also means “letter”, which is explained by a custom of ancient Germanic speakers to inscribe runes into beech bark.

Noun

*bùky f [1]

  1. beech
  2. (by extension) letter

Declension
Declension of *bùky (v-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *bùky *bùkъvi *bùkъvi
Accusative *bùkъvь *bùkъvi *bùkъvi
Genitive *bùkъve *bùkъvu *bùkъvъ
Locative *bùkъve *bùkъvu *bùkъvьxъ, *bùkъvaxъ*
Dative *bùkъvi *bùkъvьma, *bùkъvama* *bùkъvьmъ, *bùkъvamъ*
Instrumental *bùkъvьjǫ, *bùkъvľǭ** *bùkъvьma, *bùkъvama* *bùkъvьmī, *bùkъvamī*
Vocative *bùky *bùkъvi *bùkъvi
* -ьmъ/etc. are the original consonant-stem endings, while -amъ/etc. are later Common Slavic endings formed by analogy with a-stems.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

Further reading
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “буква”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
  • Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974) Słownik prasłowiański (in Polish), volume 1, Wrocław: Polska Akademia Nauk, page 446f
  • Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1976), “*buky”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 03, Moscow: Nauka, page 91
  • Skok, Petar (1971) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume I, Zagreb: JAZU, page 230f
  • Verweij, Arno (1994), “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics), volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 520

References
  1. Olander, Thomas (2001), “buky, G. bukъve”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 133)”
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