òlkati

òlkati Grammatical information: v. Accent paradigm: a Proto-Slavic meaning: `be hungry'

Page in Trubačev: XXXII 57-58

Old Church Slavic:

alъkati `be hungry, fast' [verb], alъčǫ [1sg];

lakati `be hungry, fast' [verb], lačǫ [1sg] \{1\}

Russian:

alkát' `hunger (for), crave (for), (obs.) be hungry' [verb], álču [1sg], álčet [3sg]

Old Russian:

al(ъ)kati `hunger (for), crave (for)' [verb], alъču [1sg];

lakati `hunger (for), crave (for)' [verb], laču [1sg]

Old Czech:

lákati `crave (for)' [verb], lákaju [1sg], láču [1sg]

Slovene:

lákati `be hungry, be greedy, starve' [verb], lákam [1sg]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: olʔktei

Lithuanian:

álkti `be hungry' [verb]

Latvian:

al̂kt `be hungry' [verb]

Indo-European reconstruction: HolHk-tei

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Comments: The reconstruction *ōlk- < *h₁eh₁olk- (Rasmussen Sel. Pap.: 116) cannot account for the acute tone of the root.

Other cognates:

\{1\} According to the Staroslavjanskij slovar', the ratio between alъk- (including al'k- and alk-) and lak- is 19 : 9, respectively. Zogr. (1 : 4), Mar. (3 : 1) and Ass. (3 : 1) have both variants.