Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sǫka

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 Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

Noun

*sǫka f

bitch (female dog)

Declension

Declension of *sǫka (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*sǫka	*sǫcě	*sǫky
Accusative	*sǫkǫ	*sǫcě	*sǫky
Genitive	*sǫky	*sǫku	*sǫkъ
Locative	*sǫcě	*sǫku	sǫkasъ, sǫkaxъ^*
Dative	*sǫcě	*sǫkama	*sǫkamъ
Instrumental	sǫkojǫ, sǫkǫ^**	*sǫkama	*sǫkami
Vocative	*sǫko	*sǫcě	*sǫky

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сꙋка (suka)
  - Belarusian: су́ка (súka)
  - Russian: су́ка (súka)
  - Rusyn: сука (suka)
  - Ukrainian: су́ка (súka)

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: сѫка (sǫka)
  
  Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: сука
  
  Latin: suka

West Slavic:
- Czech: (dialectal, archaic) suka
- Kashubian: sëka
- Polabian: sauko
- Polish: suka
- Slovak: suka

Non-Slavic languages:
- Hungarian: szuka
- Vilamovian: su̇ka

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