достоканъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic dialectal dostaqan (compare Chagatai ﻃﺎﺴﻄﺎﻜﺎﻥ (tostakan, wooden bowl), Kazakh тостаған (tostağan, wooden cup), Tatar тустыган (tustığan, cup), Bashkir туҫтаҡ (tuθtaq, cup for drinking koumiss)), borrowed from dialectal Persian داستارخان (dostorxun), داستارخون (dâstarxan), standard Persian دوستگان (dustgân), دوستکان (dustkân, beloved; wine that is drunk with one's beloved; big drinking cup), from دوستکام (dustkâm, beloved), from دوست (dôst) + کام (kâm).

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /dɔstɔˈkɑnʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /dɔstɔˈkanʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /dɔstɔˈkan/
  • Hyphenation: до‧сто‧ка‧нъ

Noun

достоканъ (dostokanŭ) m

  1. drinking vessel, glass

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: достака́нъ (rare)
  • Middle Russian: достака́нъ (dostakán), достока́нъ (dostokán)
    • Middle Russian: стака́нъ (stakán), стока́нъ (stokán) (17ᵗʰ cent.) (via contraction)

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.