drьkolь

drьkolь; drьkolьje Grammatical information: m. i; n. io Proto-Slavic meaning: `stick, club'

Page in Trubačev: V 139-140

Old Church Slavic:

drьkolь `stick, club' [m i];

drъkolь `stick, club' [m i]

Russian:

drekol' (dial.) `pole' [m jo?];

drekól'e `staves' [n io]

Czech:

drkolí (Jungmann) `wooden rattle, club' [n io] \{1\}

Serbo-Croatian:

drkol (arch.) `truncheon, baton' [m o]

Slovene:

dŕkoɫ `truncheon, baton' [m o];

dŕkǝlj `truncheon, baton' [m jo]

Page in Pokorny: 214

Comments: In all likelihood a compound of drъ `wood' (-> *dȇrvo) and *kol- `stab' (-> *kolti). Unlike the ESSJa, I have reconstructed *drьkolь, *drьkolьje because the evidence points to ь. I agree, however, that the form originally may have had *ъ (cf. Vaillant 1928).

Notes:

\{1\} MoCz. drkolna, OCz. dřkolna, strkolna.