Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/komina

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

By surface analysis, *komъ +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*komina f^[1]

lump of marc, refuse matter

Declension

Declension of *komina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*komina	*komině	*kominy
genitive	*kominy	*kominu	*kominъ
dative	*komině	*kominama	*kominamъ
accusative	*kominǫ	*komině	*kominy
instrumental	kominojǫ, kominǫ^**	*kominama	*kominami
locative	*komině	*kominu	kominasъ, kominaxъ^*
vocative	*komino	*komině	*kominy

^* -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

South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ко́мина (kómina), ку́мина (kúmina) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: комина (komina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: комина
  
  Latin script: komina

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*komina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 173

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*komina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 173

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