ęzỳkъ

ęzỳkъ Grammatical information: m. o Accent paradigm: a Proto-Slavic meaning: `tongue, language'

Page in Trubačev: VI 74-75

Old Church Slavic:

językъ `tongue, language, nation' [m o]

Russian:

jazýk `tongue, language' [m o]

Czech:

jazyk `tongue, language' [m o]

Slovak:

jazyk `tongue, language' [m o]

Polish:

język `tongue, language' [m o]

Serbo-Croatian:

jèzik `tongue, language' [m o];

Čak. jazȉk (Vrgada) `tongue, language' [m o];

Čak. zajȉk (Novi, Orbanići) `tongue, language' [m o]

Slovene:

jézik `tongue, language' [m o], jezíka [Gens]

Bulgarian:

ezík `tongue, language' [m o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: inźuʔ-

Lithuanian:

liežùvis `tongue' [m io] 2

Old Prussian:

insuwis `tongue'

Indo-European reconstruction: dnǵʰ-uh₂-

IE meaning: tongue

Certainty: +

Page in Pokorny: 223

Comments: Apparently, the Balto-Slavic noun *inźuʔ- (with loss of initial *d) acquired the suffix *-kъ in Slavic. The nasal vowel of the root is reflected as short in the languages where quantitative differences can be observed, which points to original suffixal stress.

Other cognates:

Skt. jihvā́- (RV+) `tongue' [f];

OLat. dingua `tongue' [f];

Go. tuggo [f]