Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pǫčina

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

From *pǫ̀čiti (“to swell, burst”) +‎ *-ina, with a semantic developmemt "crack" > "abyss" > "open sea".

Noun

*pǫčina f[1]

  1. open sea

Declension

Declension of *pǫčina (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *pǫčina *pǫčině *pǫčiny
genitive *pǫčiny *pǫčinu *pǫčinъ
dative *pǫčině *pǫčinama *pǫčinamъ
accusative *pǫčinǫ *pǫčině *pǫčiny
instrumental *pǫčinojǫ, *pǫčinǫ** *pǫčinama *pǫčinami
locative *pǫčině *pǫčinu *pǫčinasъ, *pǫčinaxъ*
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).

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: пучина (pučina)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: пѫчина (pǫčina)
      unspecified script:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: пучина
      Latin: pučina
    • Slovene: počína (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Polish: pęczyna

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 Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. ^ 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”
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