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
Accusative	*pǫčinǫ	*pǫčině	*pǫčiny
Genitive	*pǫčiny	*pǫčinu	*pǫčinъ
Locative	*pǫčině	*pǫčinu	pǫčinasъ, pǫčinaxъ^*
Dative	*pǫčině	*pǫčinama	*pǫčinamъ
Instrumental	pǫčinojǫ, pǫčinǫ^**	*pǫčinama	*pǫčinami
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: пѫчина (pǫčina)
  
  Unspecified:
- Slovene: počína (tonal orthography)

References

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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[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”