Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kukoba

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, *kukъ +‎ *-oba.

Noun

*kukoba f^[1]

thrift

Declension

Declension of *kukoba (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kukoba	*kukobě	*kukoby
genitive	*kukoby	*kukobu	*kukobъ
dative	*kukobě	*kukobama	*kukobamъ
accusative	*kukobǫ	*kukobě	*kukoby
instrumental	kukobojǫ, kukobǫ^**	*kukobama	*kukobami
locative	*kukobě	*kukobu	kukobasъ, kukobaxъ^*
vocative	*kukobo	*kukobě	*kukoby

^* -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
- Russian: куко́ба (kukóba), куко́б (kukób) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: кукі́бка (kukíbka)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kukoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 90

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kukoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 90

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