Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kuča

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kuča

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

Etymology

A -jā stem derivative of *kuka.

Noun

*kùča f[1][2]

1. heap

Inflection

Declension of *kùča (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*kùča	*kùči	*kùčę̇
Accusative	*kùčǫ	*kùči	*kùčę̇
Genitive	*kùčę̇	*kùču	*kùčь
Locative	*kùčī	*kùču	*kùčāsъ
Dative	*kùčī	*kùčama	*kùčāmъ
Instrumental	*kùčējǫ, *kùčǭ*	*kùčama	*kùčāmī
Vocative	*kùče	*kùči	*kùčę̇

^* 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: ку́ча (kúča)
  • Russian: ку́ча (kúča)
  • Ukrainian: ку́ча (kúča)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ку́ча

    Latin: kúča

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: kučе
  • Polish: kusza (archaic, dialectal)
  • Slovincian: kuča

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ку́ча”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kuča”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 254: “f. jā ‘heap’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “kuča”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (RPT 108f.)”