Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/obpona

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

Deverbal of *obpęti.

Noun

*obpona f

1. curtain

Declension

Declension of *obpona (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*obpona	*obponě	*obpony
genitive	*obpony	*obponu	*obponъ
dative	*obponě	*obponama	*obponamъ
accusative	*obponǫ	*obponě	*obpony
instrumental	*obponojǫ, *obponǫ**	*obponama	*obponami
locative	*obponě	*obponu	*obponasъ, *obponaxъ*
vocative	*obpono	*obponě	*obpony

^* -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).

Related terms

• *pęti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: опона (opona)
    • Belarusian: апо́на (apóna)
    • Ukrainian: опо́на (opóna)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: опона (opona)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̀пона

    Latin script: òpona

  • Slovene: opǫ̑na (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: opona
    • Czech: opona
  • Old Polish: obpona, opona
    • Polish: opona
  • Old Slovak: opona
    • Slovak: opona

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “опо́на”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress