Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golgolъ

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

By intensive reduplication from the onomatopoeic root *gol-, whence also *gȏlsъ (“voice”). Compare similar onomatopoetic formation in Sanskrit गर्गर (gargara, “a type of musical instrument”) and Proto-Slavic *kǫkoľь, *kolkolъ.

Noun

*golgolъ m[1][2]

speech
word

Declension

Declension of *golgolъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*golgolъ	*golgola	*golgoli
Accusative	*golgolъ	*golgola	*golgoly
Genitive	*golgola	*golgolu	*golgolъ
Locative	*golgolě	*golgolu	*golgolěxъ
Dative	*golgolu	*golgoloma	*golgolomъ
Instrumental	golgolъmь, golgolomь^*	*golgoloma	*golgoly
Vocative	*golgole	*golgola	*golgoli

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

Derived terms

*golgolati (“speak”)
*golgolěti
*golgoliti

Descendants

East Slavic: гологолъ (gologolŭ)
- Russian: *гологол (> голого́лить (gologólitʹ))
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: глаголъ (glagolŭ)
  
  Glagolitic: ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⱏ (glagolŭ)
  - → Russian: глаго́л (glagól)
  - → Serbo-Croatian: glȁgol
- Bulgarian: глагул (glagul, “speech”) (dialectal), глагор (glagor, “voice”)
- Macedonian: глагол (glagol, “speech, talk”) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)
  Cyrillic: гла́гољ
  
  Latin: glágolj
- Slovene: glágol (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: hlahol
- Polish: Głogoły, Głogolice (place names)
- Slovak: hlahol

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*golgolъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 174: “m. o ‘speech, word’”
Olander, Thomas (2001), “golgolъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a/b (PR 131)”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*golgolъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 174: “m. o ‘speech, word’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001), “golgolъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a/b (PR 131)”