Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kaka

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

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kākā, from Proto-Indo-European *kakka- (“to defecate”). Baltic cognates include Latvian kaka, Lithuanian kaka.

Noun

*kàka f

excrement

Related terms

*kàkati (“to shit, defecate”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Middle Russian: ка́ка (káka) (18ᵗʰ cent.)
  - Russian: ка́ка (káka)
- Rusyn: ка́ка (káka)
- Ukrainian: ка́ка (káka), ка́ки (káky)
  - ⇒ Ukrainian: ка́кало (kákalo) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: а́ко (áko)
- Macedonian: кака (kaka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ка́ка
  
  Latin script: káka

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ка́ка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “ка́кати”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 344
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kakati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 9 (*jьz – *klenьje), Moscow: Nauka, page 117

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