лоток

Russian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lotokъ, *lotъkъ, *lotoka, *lotъka, further etymology uncertain, in East Slavic only, Polish łotok being borrowed from there, as well as Lithuanian latãkas and Latvian lataka, lataga, possibly suffixed and ablauting (arbitrarily) to *laty, otherwise related to Proto-Germanic *lattō, or Old Irish lathach (“mire, puddle”), Old Norse leðja (“mud”), Latin latex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɫɐˈtok]

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Noun

лото́к • (lotók) m inan (genitive лотка́, nominative plural лотки́, genitive plural лотко́в)

1. tray, pan; chute

Declension

Declension of лото́к (inan masc-form velar-stem accent-b reduc) 

	singular	plural
nominative	лото́к lotók	лотки́ lotkí
genitive	лотка́ lotká	лотко́в lotkóv
dative	лотку́ lotkú	лотка́м lotkám
accusative	лото́к lotók	лотки́ lotkí
instrumental	лотко́м lotkóm	лотка́ми lotkámi
prepositional	лотке́ lotké	лотка́х lotkáx

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lotokъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 98
• Трубачёв, Олег Николаевич (a. 2002) Труды по этимологии: Слово · История · Культура (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Языки славянской культуры, published 2008, →ISBN, pages 601–603
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лоток”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress