Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/o(b)tekъ

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

Resultant noun of *o(b)tekti (“to outflow; to sediment, to bulk, to swell”) +‎ *-ъ or equivalently from *ob- +‎ *tekъ.

Noun

*o(b)tekъ m

1. edema, swelling

Inflection

Declension of *o(b)tekъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*o(b)tekъ	*o(b)teka	*o(b)teci
genitive	*o(b)teka	*o(b)teku	*o(b)tekъ
dative	*o(b)teku	*o(b)tekoma	*o(b)tekomъ
accusative	*o(b)tekъ	*o(b)teka	*o(b)teky
instrumental	*o(b)tekъmь, *o(b)tekomь*	*o(b)tekoma	*o(b)teky
locative	*o(b)tecě	*o(b)teku	*o(b)tecěxъ
vocative	*o(b)teče	*o(b)teka	*o(b)teci

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

Related terms

• *teťi (“to flow, to run”)
• *tekъ (“flowth, stream”)
• *tokъ (“current”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: отекъ (otekŭ)
    • Belarusian: ацёк (acjók)
    • Russian: о́тек (ótek), отёк (otjók)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: о́тик (ótik) (dialectal, archaic)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: отичане (otičane, “swelling”) (standard)
  • Serbo-Croatian::

    Cyrillic script: отек (rare)

    Latin script: otek (rare)

  • Slovene: otèk, obtèk
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: ociek
  • Slovak: oťek

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2003), “*obtekъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 30 (*obsojьnikъ – *obvedьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 164
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “отик”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 962