Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/Rimъ
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Rōma. The substitution of ō with *i is enigmatic; many implausible propositions have been made. The source was probably Germanic (compare Proto-Germanic *Rūmō); it is possible to think of a back-formation from *rĩmьskъ, from a reflex of Proto-Germanic *Rūmiskaz with umlaut.
Proper noun edit
*Rĩmъ m
Declension edit
Declension of *Rĩmъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b, uncountable)
Descendants edit
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Bulgarian: Рим (Rim)
- Macedonian: Рим (Rim)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: Rím (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “Рим”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress