Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gъlkъ

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

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

*gъlkъ m

1. noise, cackle

Alternative forms

• *gъlka (a-stem)
• *gъlčь (yo-stem)

Declension

Declension of *gъlkъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gъlkъ	*gъlka	*gъlci
genitive	*gъlka	*gъlku	*gъlkъ
dative	*gъlku	*gъlkoma	*gъlkomъ
accusative	*gъlkъ	*gъlka	*gъlky
instrumental	*gъlkъmь, *gъlkomь*	*gъlkoma	*gъlky
locative	*gъlcě	*gъlku	*gъlcěxъ
vocative	*gъlče	*gъlka	*gъlci

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *gъlkati (“to bark, yelp”)
• *gъlčati (“to scold, to yell”)
• *gъlčiti (“to shout”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: гълка f (gŭlka), голка f (golka)
    • Old Ruthenian: го́лка f (hólka)
    • Russian: голк (golk) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: глъкъ (glŭkŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰳⰾⱏⰽⱏ (glŭkŭ)

    • Church Slavonic: глъкъ (glŭkŭ), глъка f (glŭka) (Russian recension)
  • Bulgarian: глък (glǎk); глъч (glǎč) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian::

    Cyrillic script: гу̏ка

    Latin script: gȕka

  • Slovene: gȏłk (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hluk
    • Czech: hluk
  • Old Polish: giełk
    • Polish: zgiełk
  • Slovak: hluk
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hołk

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: holcă

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gъlkъ/*gъlkа”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 191

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “голк”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “глък”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 254
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “golčáti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si