Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/o(b)krajina

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 *o(b)krajь +‎ *-ina, from *krajь.

Noun

*o(b)krajina f^[1]

outskirts, edge of something, something located on the edge

Declension

Declension of *o(b)krajina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*o(b)krajina	*o(b)krajině	*o(b)krajiny
genitive	*o(b)krajiny	*o(b)krajinu	*o(b)krajinъ
dative	*o(b)krajině	*o(b)krajinama	*o(b)krajinamъ
accusative	*o(b)krajinǫ	*o(b)krajině	*o(b)krajiny
instrumental	o(b)krajinojǫ, o(b)krajinǫ^**	*o(b)krajinama	*o(b)krajinami
locative	*o(b)krajině	*o(b)krajinu	o(b)krajinasъ, o(b)krajinaxъ^*
vocative	*o(b)krajino	*o(b)krajině	*o(b)krajiny

^* -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).

Derived terms

*o(b)krajinьnъ

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *окраина (*okraina)
  - Middle Russian: окраина (okraina)
    - Russian: окра́ина (okráina); окра́йна (okrájna) (dialectal)
      - Russian: окра́инка (okráinka) (dialectal)
      - → Bulgarian: окраи́на (okraína) (obsolete, bookish)
  - Old Ruthenian: *окраина (*okraina)
    - Belarusian: окра́ина (okráina); акра́іна (akráina) (dialectal)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: окра́ина (okráyna)
    - Ukrainian: окра́їна (okrájina)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: окра̀јина
  
  Latin script: okràjina
- Slovene: okrájina, okrajna, obkrajína (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: okrajina
- >? Old Polish: okraina
  - Polish: okraina
- Slovak: okrajina (obsolete, bookish)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2000), “*obkrajina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 27 (*obgordja/*obgordjь – *oblězati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 165

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2000), “*obkrajina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 27 (*obgordja/*obgordjь – *oblězati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 165

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