Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kunica
Appearance
Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, *kunà + *-ica.
Noun
[edit]*kunica f[1]
Declension
[edit]Declension of *kunica (soft a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *kunica | *kunici | *kunicę̇ |
genitive | *kunicę̇ | *kunicu | *kunicь |
dative | *kunici | *kunicama | *kunicamъ |
accusative | *kunicǫ | *kunici | *kunicę̇ |
instrumental | *kunicejǫ, *kunicǫ** | *kunicama | *kunicami |
locative | *kunici | *kunicu | *kunicasъ, *kunicaxъ* |
vocative | *kunice | *kunici | *kunicę̇ |
* -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
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
[edit]- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kunica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 105