Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/paǫčina

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

*pàǭčīna

Etymology

From *pàǭkъ +‎ *-ìna.

Noun

*pàǭčīna f

1. spiderweb, cobweb

Declension

Declension of *pàǭčīna (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pàǭčīna	*pàǭčīně	*pàǭčīny
genitive	*pàǭčīny	*pàǭčīnu	*pàǭčīnъ
dative	*pàǭčīně	*pàǭčīnama	*pàǭčīnamъ
accusative	*pàǭčīnǫ	*pàǭčīně	*pàǭčīny
instrumental	*pàǭčīnojǫ, *pàǭčīnǭ**	*pàǭčīnama	*pàǭčīnamī
locative	*pàǭčīně	*pàǭčīnu	*pàǭčīnasъ, *pàǭčīnaxъ*
vocative	*pàǭčīno	*pàǭčīně	*pàǭčīny

^* -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: паѫчина (paǫčina)
    • Belarusian: павуці́на (pavucína)
    • Russian: паучи́на (paučína) (dialectal), паути́на (pautína)
    • Ukrainian: павучи́на (pavučýna), павути́на (pavutýna)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: паѫчина (paǫčina)
  • Bulgarian: па́яжина (pájažina), па́ежина (páežina)
  • Macedonian: пајажина (pajažina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: па̏учина

    Latin: pȁučina

  • Slovene: pȃjčina, pȃječina
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pavučina
  • Polish: pajęczyna
  • Silesian: pajynczyna
  • Slovak: pavučina
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pawcyna
    • Upper Sorbian: pawčina

Further reading

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