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. 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)
    • Russian: пучи́на (pučína)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: пѫчина (pǫčina)

    Unspecified script:

  • Slovene: počína (tonal orthography)

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