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      Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ęzykъ
Proto-Slavic
    
    Etymology
    
From earlier *inźūˀ-kas, extended from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inźūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. By surface analysis, **ęzy + *-kъ.
Inflection
    
Declension of *ęzỳkъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *ęzỳkъ | *ęzỳka | *ęzỳci | 
| Accusative | *ęzỳkъ | *ęzỳka | *ęzỳky | 
| Genitive | *ęzỳka | *ęzỳku | *ęzỳkъ | 
| Locative | *ęzỳcě | *ęzỳku | *ęzỳcě̄xъ | 
| Dative | *ęzỳku | *ęzỳkoma | *ęzỳkomъ | 
| Instrumental | *ęzỳkъmь, *ęzỳkomь* | *ęzỳkoma | *ęzỳkȳ | 
| Vocative | *ęzỳče | *ęzỳka | *ęzỳci | 
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
    
Further reading
    
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “язык”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “язык”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 467
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ęzykъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 74
References
    
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ęzỳkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 159: “m. o (a) ‘tongue, language’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “językъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 187; PR 132)”
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