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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/loťika

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

Borrowed in the 7th–8th century from the Dalmatian version of Latin lactūca. Borrowed into East Slavic only by horticulturalists in late Medieval times as Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian лату́к (latúk).

Noun

*loťika f

  1. salad plant from the Cichorieae tribe of the Asteraceae
    1. lettuce (Lactuca spp.)
    2. nipplewort (Lapsana spp.)

Inflection
Declension of *loťika (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *loťika *loťicě *loťiky
genitive *loťiky *loťiku *loťikъ
dative *loťicě *loťikama *loťikamъ
accusative *loťikǫ *loťicě *loťiky
instrumental *loťikojǫ, *loťikǫ** *loťikama *loťikami
locative *loťicě *loťiku *loťikasъ, *loťikaxъ*
vocative *loťiko *loťicě *loťiky
* -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
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: лоштика (loštika)
    • Bulgarian: лоштика (loštika) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: лоштика (loštika) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ло̀ћика
      Latin script: lòćika
      • → Albanian: leqikë, loçike
    • Slovene: ločíka, ločičje
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: locika
      • Czech: locika, locyka
    • Old Polish: łoczyga, łocyga
      • Polish: łoczyga
        • → Russian: лочи́га (ločíga)
    • Slovak: locika

References
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*loktika”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 7
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лочи́га”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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