Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tъrkati

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.

• *tьrkati (formally expected)

Vasmer presumes onomatopoeic origin. Snoj derives it from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tr̥H-kе́h₂-ti, from a k-extension of *terh₁- (“to prick, pierce”) (whence Proto-Slavic *terti). Possible influenced by *tъrkъ (“sudden move, shift”). Related to Lithuanian tùrkti (“to scour, to sweep”) (obsolete), perhaps tur̃kti (“to resonate, to rasp (of sound)”).

*tъ̀rkati impf^[1]

1. (North Slavic) to shove, to throb, to prod
2. (South Slavic) to rub, to scrub

• *terti (“to rub”)
• *tьrstь (“reed”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: тарка́ць (tarkácʹ)
  • Russian: то́ркать (tórkatʹ)
  • Ukrainian: торка́ти (torkáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: тъ́ркам (tǎ́rkam)
  • Kajkavian Serbo-Croatian: tȑkati
  • Slovene: tr̄kati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: trkat, strkati
  • Middle Polish: tarchać, tarkać
    • Polish: turkać
  • Slovak: strkať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: starkaś
    • Upper Sorbian: storkać

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “торкать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “торкати”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka