Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/obьťina

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 *obьťь (“community”) +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*obьťina f

1. community, common property, common area

Declension

Declension of *obьťina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*obьťina	*obьťině	*obьťiny
genitive	*obьťiny	*obьťinu	*obьťinъ
dative	*obьťině	*obьťinama	*obьťinamъ
accusative	*obьťinǫ	*obьťině	*obьťiny
instrumental	*obьťinojǫ, *obьťinǫ**	*obьťinama	*obьťinami
locative	*obьťině	*obьťinu	*obьťinasъ, *obьťinaxъ*
vocative	*obьťino	*obьťině	*obьťiny

^* -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:
  • Old East Slavic: обьчина (obĭčina)
    • Old Ruthenian: обчина (občina), обчына (občyna)
      • Belarusian: обчина (óbčina)
    • Russian: обчина (občina)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: обьщина (obĭština)

    • → Old East Slavic: обьщина (obĭščina)
      • Old Ruthenian: общи́на (obščína)
        • Ukrainian: общи́на (obščýna)
      • Russian: общи́на (obščína), о́бщина (óbščina)
  • Bulgarian: община (obština)
  • Macedonian: општина (opština)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̏пћина

    Latin script: ȍpćina

  • Slovene: ǫ́bčina (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: obcina, občina
    • Czech: občina
  • ⇒ Old Polish: obczyzna
    • Polish: obczyzna

Further reading

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “obecny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 371
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “ọ̑bčina”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
• Králik, Ľubor (2016) “obec”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 393
• Machek, Václav (1968) “obec”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 404
• Rejzek, Jiří (2001) “obec”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 1st edition, Voznice: LEDA, →ISBN, page 437