aucima

aucima

Sudovian

Etymology

Composed of two morphemes, au- and cima:[1]

• The prefix au- is from Proto-Balto-Slavic *au- (“away from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew (“away from”).
• The morpheme cima is likely from Proto-Balto-Slavic *káimas, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *ḱey- (“to settle”).

    Cognates

au-: Compare Old Prussian aumūsnan (“ablution”), aulāut (“to die”). Corresponds to Proto-Slavic *u- (“away”). The prefix au- exists in the Eastern Baltic languages too,[2] but is less common, e.g. in Lithuanian mostly supplanted by nu-. cima: Compare Lithuanian káimas (“village, countryside”), kiẽmas (“courtyard, village”), Latvian ciems (“village”), Old Prussian caymis (“village”).

Noun

aucima

1. village, countryside
   • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 16, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):

     wieſ [wieś] — aucima

     wieſ [wieś] — countryside

References

1. Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985), “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, issue 1, page 69: “aucima ‘kaimas, sodžius, l. wieſ’ 16.”
2. Derksen, Rick (2015), “au-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 68