Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/somъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *śámas, cognate to Latvian sams, Lithuanian šãmas, further etymology unknown, therefore probably borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate, possibly shared with Ancient Greek καμασήν (kamasḗn, “kind of fish”); alternatively perhaps a corrupted borrowing from Uralic, such as Proto-Finnic *sampi (“sturgeon”).[1]

Noun

*sòmъ m

  1. catfish

Declension

Declension of *sòmъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *sòmъ *somà *somì
genitive *somà *somù *sòmъ
dative *somù *somòma *somòmъ
accusative *sòmъ *somà *somỳ
instrumental *somъ̀mь, *somòmь* *somòma *sòmy
locative *somě̀ *somù *sòměxъ
vocative *some *somà *somì

* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old Ruthenian: сомъ (som)
      • Belarusian: сом (som)
      • Ukrainian: сом (som); сім (sim), сум (sum), сон (son) (dialectal)
    • Middle Russian: сомъ (som)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: сом (som)
    • Macedonian: сом (som)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: со̏м
      Latin script: sȍm
    • Slovene: sòm (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References

  1. ^ TYSCHENKO, Kostiantyn: PROTO-FINNIC AND INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTIC AND GENETIC CONTACTS, p. 2

Further reading

  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*sòmъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 461
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “šamas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 440
  • Kolomijec, V. T. (1983) Происхождение общеславянских названий рыб [The Origin of the Common Slavic Names of Fish] (К IX Международному съезду славистов) (in Russian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, pages 106-109
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сом”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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