Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/komaxa
Appearance
Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *komH- (“to hum”).
Noun
[edit]*komaxa or *komasa f
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: кома́ха (komáxa, “insect”)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: кома́ство (komástvo, “insects”) (dialectal)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: комашня́ (komašnjá, “insects; ants, anthill”), комахня́ (komaxnjá, “anthill; red ants”) (dialectal)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: кома́шни́к (komášnýk, “anthill”)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: комаши́на (komašýna, “insect”)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: кома́шка (komáška, “small insect; ant”)
- ⇒ Ukrainian: комашни́ця (komašnýcja, “anthill”) (dialectal)
- Russian: комаха́ (komaxá, “cochineal”) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: кома́ха (komáxa, “insect”)
- West Slavic:
- Polish: kómasy pl (“mosquitoes”)
Further reading
[edit]- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “кома́ха”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 532