Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kyjanica

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 *kyjana (“wooden hammer”) +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*kyjanica m^[1]

wooden hammer
wooden tool

Declension

Declension of *kyjanica (soft a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kyjanica	*kyjanici	*kyjanicę̇
genitive	*kyjanicę̇	*kyjanicu	*kyjanicь
dative	*kyjanici	*kyjanicama	*kyjanicamъ
accusative	*kyjanicǫ	*kyjanici	*kyjanicę̇
instrumental	kyjanicejǫ, kyjanicǫ^**	*kyjanicama	*kyjanicami
locative	*kyjanici	*kyjanicu	kyjanicasъ, kyjanicaxъ^*
vocative	*kyjanice	*kyjanici	*kyjanicę̇

^* -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:
- ⇒ Macedonian: кијаниче (kijaniče) (dialectal)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: kyjanicě
  - Czech: kyjanice (archaic)
- Old Polish: kijanica
  - Polish: kijanica
- Old Slovak: kyjanica, kijanica
  - Slovak: kijaňica (dialectal)
  - ⇒ Old Slovak: kyjanička
    - ⇒ Slovak: kijaňička (dialectal)
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: czijanca
  - Slovincian: kjijanca
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: kijańca

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kyjanica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 256

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kyjanica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 256

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