"lǫkъ" meaning in Proto-Slavic

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Noun

Etymology: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás. Related to the verb *lęťi (“to bend”). Cognate with Lithuanian lañkas (“bow, arc”) and Latvian loks (“bow; arch”). Etymology templates: {{cog|ine-bsl-pro|*lankás}} Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, {{cog|lt|lañkas|t=bow, arc}} Lithuanian lañkas (“bow, arc”), {{cog|lv|loks|t=bow; arch}} Latvian loks (“bow; arch”) Inflection templates: {{sla-decl-noun|ap=c}} Forms: lǫ̑kъ [canonical, masculine], no-table-tags [table-tags], lǫ̑kъ [nominative, singular], lǫ̑ka [dual, nominative], lǫ̑ci [nominative, plural], lǫ̑ka [genitive, singular], lǫkù [dual, genitive], lǫ̃kъ [genitive, plural], lǫ̑ku [dative, singular], lǫkomà [dative, dual], lǫkòmъ [dative, plural], lǫ̑kъ [accusative, singular], lǫ̑ka [accusative, dual], lǫ̑ky [accusative, plural], lǫ̑kъmь [instrumental, singular], lǫ̑komь [instrumental, singular], lǫkomà [dual, instrumental], lǫký [instrumental, plural], lǫ̑cě [locative, singular], lǫkù [dual, locative], lǫcě̃xъ [locative, plural], lǫče [singular, vocative], lǫ̑ka [dual, vocative], lǫ̑ci [plural, vocative]
  1. bow (weapon used for shooting arrows) Wikipedia link: Rick Derksen Tags: reconstruction Related terms: lękati, lęcati (english: to set traps, to scare?), lękъ (english: bent), lęťi (english: to bend), lǫčьje (english: rush), lǫkàvъ (english: curved, cunning), lǭčìti (english: to separate), lǭkà (english: low-lying meadow)
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "lang_code": "be",
          "roman": "luk",
          "word": "лук"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "roman": "luk",
          "word": "лук"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "lang_code": "uk",
          "roman": "luk",
          "word": "лук"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "luokki"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "luokka"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old East Slavic",
      "lang_code": "orv",
      "roman": "lukŭ",
      "word": "лукъ"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Old Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "lǫkŭ",
              "word": "лѫкъ"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Glagolitic script",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "lǫkŭ",
              "word": "ⰾⱘⰽⱏ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
          "lang_code": "cu"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "lǎk",
          "word": "лък"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "lǎnk",
          "word": "лънк"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "lang_code": "mk",
          "roman": "lak",
          "word": "лак"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "лу̑к"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Latin script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "lȗk"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "South Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Polish",
              "lang_code": "pl",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed"
              ],
              "word": "łuk"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Czech",
          "lang_code": "cs",
          "word": "luk"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Kashubian",
          "lang_code": "csb",
          "word": "łãk"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polabian",
          "lang_code": "pox",
          "word": "lauk"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "word": "łęk"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "lang_code": "sk",
          "word": "luk"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "West Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "2": "*lankás"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lt",
        "2": "lañkas",
        "t": "bow, arc"
      },
      "expansion": "Lithuanian lañkas (“bow, arc”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "loks",
        "t": "bow; arch"
      },
      "expansion": "Latvian loks (“bow; arch”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás. Related to the verb *lęťi (“to bend”). Cognate with Lithuanian lañkas (“bow, arc”) and Latvian loks (“bow; arch”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑kъ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sla-decl-noun",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑kъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ci",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫkù",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̃kъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ku",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫkomà",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫkòmъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑kъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ky",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑kъmь",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑komь",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫkomà",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫký",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑cě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫkù",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫcě̃xъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫče",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ci",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "ap": "c"
      },
      "name": "sla-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
  "lang_code": "sla-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lǫkъ",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Slavic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm c",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bow (weapon used for shooting arrows)"
      ],
      "id": "en-lǫkъ-sla-pro-noun-YWr961pl",
      "links": [
        [
          "bow",
          "bow"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "lękati"
        },
        {
          "english": "to set traps, to scare?",
          "translation": "to set traps, to scare?",
          "word": "lęcati"
        },
        {
          "english": "bent",
          "translation": "bent",
          "word": "lękъ"
        },
        {
          "english": "to bend",
          "translation": "to bend",
          "word": "lęťi"
        },
        {
          "english": "rush",
          "translation": "rush",
          "word": "lǫčьje"
        },
        {
          "english": "curved, cunning",
          "translation": "curved, cunning",
          "word": "lǫkàvъ"
        },
        {
          "english": "to separate",
          "translation": "to separate",
          "word": "lǭčìti"
        },
        {
          "english": "low-lying meadow",
          "translation": "low-lying meadow",
          "word": "lǭkà"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Rick Derksen"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lǫkъ"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "lang_code": "be",
          "roman": "luk",
          "word": "лук"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "roman": "luk",
          "word": "лук"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "lang_code": "uk",
          "roman": "luk",
          "word": "лук"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "luokki"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "luokka"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old East Slavic",
      "lang_code": "orv",
      "roman": "lukŭ",
      "word": "лукъ"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Old Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "lǫkŭ",
              "word": "лѫкъ"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Glagolitic script",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "lǫkŭ",
              "word": "ⰾⱘⰽⱏ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
          "lang_code": "cu"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "lǎk",
          "word": "лък"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "lǎnk",
          "word": "лънк"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "lang_code": "mk",
          "roman": "lak",
          "word": "лак"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "лу̑к"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Latin script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "lȗk"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "South Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Polish",
              "lang_code": "pl",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed"
              ],
              "word": "łuk"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Czech",
          "lang_code": "cs",
          "word": "luk"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Kashubian",
          "lang_code": "csb",
          "word": "łãk"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polabian",
          "lang_code": "pox",
          "word": "lauk"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "word": "łęk"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "lang_code": "sk",
          "word": "luk"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "West Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "2": "*lankás"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lt",
        "2": "lañkas",
        "t": "bow, arc"
      },
      "expansion": "Lithuanian lañkas (“bow, arc”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "loks",
        "t": "bow; arch"
      },
      "expansion": "Latvian loks (“bow; arch”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás. Related to the verb *lęťi (“to bend”). Cognate with Lithuanian lañkas (“bow, arc”) and Latvian loks (“bow; arch”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑kъ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sla-decl-noun",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑kъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ci",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫkù",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̃kъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ku",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫkomà",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫkòmъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑kъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ky",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑kъmь",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑komь",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫkomà",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫký",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑cě",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫkù",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫcě̃xъ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫče",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lǫ̑ci",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "ap": "c"
      },
      "name": "sla-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
  "lang_code": "sla-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lǫkъ",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lękati"
    },
    {
      "english": "to set traps, to scare?",
      "translation": "to set traps, to scare?",
      "word": "lęcati"
    },
    {
      "english": "bent",
      "translation": "bent",
      "word": "lękъ"
    },
    {
      "english": "to bend",
      "translation": "to bend",
      "word": "lęťi"
    },
    {
      "english": "rush",
      "translation": "rush",
      "word": "lǫčьje"
    },
    {
      "english": "curved, cunning",
      "translation": "curved, cunning",
      "word": "lǫkàvъ"
    },
    {
      "english": "to separate",
      "translation": "to separate",
      "word": "lǭčìti"
    },
    {
      "english": "low-lying meadow",
      "translation": "low-lying meadow",
      "word": "lǭkà"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Proto-Slavic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-Slavic hard masculine o-stem nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic hard o-stem nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic lemmas",
        "Proto-Slavic masculine nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm c",
        "Proto-Slavic nouns",
        "sla-pro:Weapons"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bow (weapon used for shooting arrows)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bow",
          "bow"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Rick Derksen"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lǫkъ"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.