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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/ránkāˀ

This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂ or *rónk-eh₂. This appears to be derived from a verbal root *wrenk- or *renk-.

According to Karulis, the root is *wrenk- and derived from the zero grade of a root *wer- (to turn, to bend). The original meaning was then “bent, bending (organ, limb)”.[1] Compare Proto-Germanic *wranhō (angle, corner, nook).

According to Derksen and Kümmel, the root in question is found in Lithuanian riñkti (to gather).[2][3][4]

Noun

*ránkāˀ f[5][2][3][6]

  1. hand, arm

Inflection

Declension of *ránkāˀ (ā-stem, fixed accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *ránkāˀ *ránkāiˀ *ránkās
Accusative *ránkā(ˀ)n *ránkāiˀ *ránkā(ˀ)ns
Genitive *ránkā(ˀ)s *ránkāu(ˀ) *ránkōn
Locative *ránkāiˀ *ránkāu(ˀ) *ránkā(ˀ)su
Dative *ránkāi *ránkā(ˀ)(ˀ) *ránkā(ˀ)mas
Instrumental *ránkāˀn *ránkā(ˀ)māˀ *ránkā(ˀ)mīˀs
Vocative *ránka *ránkāiˀ *ránkās

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: rūka
    • Latvian: ròka
    • Lithuanian: rankà
    • Samogitian: ronka
  • Proto-Slavic: *rǭkà (see there for further descendants)
  • West Baltic:

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), ròka”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
  2. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*rǭkà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 439: “*rónkaʔ”
  3. Derksen, Rick (2015), “ranka”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 376: “*rónkaʔ”
  4. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), ?*renk-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 506
  5. Kim, Ronald (2018), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European, Berlin: de Gruyter
  6. Balto-Slavic Mobility as an Indo-European Problem, J. Jasanoff
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