Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/molka

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

Alternative forms

*molky

Etymology

Possibly, related to*melko (“milk”).

Noun

*molka f^[1]

marsh, slough, puddle

Declension

Declension of *molka (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*molka	*molcě	*molky
genitive	*molky	*molku	*molkъ
dative	*molcě	*molkama	*molkamъ
accusative	*molkǫ	*molcě	*molky
instrumental	molkojǫ, molkǫ^**	*molkama	*molkami
locative	*molcě	*molku	molkasъ, molkaxъ^*
vocative	*molko	*molcě	*molky

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: мо́лока (móloka) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: мла́ка (mláka), млака́ (mlaká) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: млака (mlaka)
- Serbo-Croatian::
  Cyrillic script: мла̏ка
  
  Latin script: mlȁka
- Slovene: mláka (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: mlaka
  - Czech: mlaka (obsolete)
- Slovak: mláka

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*molka \*molky”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 187

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*molka \*molky”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 187

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