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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pǫčina
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *pǫ̀čiti (“to swell, burst”) + *-ina, with a semantic developmemt "crack" > "abyss" > "open sea".
Noun
*pǫčina f[1]
- open sea
Declension
Declension of *pǫčina (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *pǫčina | *pǫčině | *pǫčiny |
| Accusative | *pǫčinǫ | *pǫčině | *pǫčiny |
| Genitive | *pǫčiny | *pǫčinu | *pǫčinъ |
| Locative | *pǫčině | *pǫčinu | *pǫčinasъ, *pǫčinaxъ* |
| Dative | *pǫčině | *pǫčinama | *pǫčinamъ |
| Instrumental | *pǫčinojǫ, *pǫčinǫ** | *pǫčinama | *pǫčinami |
| Vocative | *pǫčino | *pǫčině | *pǫčiny |
* -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).
** 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:
- Old East Slavic: пучина (pučina)
- Russian: пучи́на (pučína)
- Old East Slavic: пучина (pučina)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: пѫчина (pǫčina)
- Unspecified:
- Slovene: počína (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
Further reading
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “pǫčina”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пучи́на”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pǫčina”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416: “f. ā”