Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pričina
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editDeverbal from *pričiniti, from *činiti.
Noun
edit*pričina f
Declension
editDeclension of *pričina (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *pričina | *pričině | *pričiny |
genitive | *pričiny | *pričinu | *pričinъ |
dative | *pričině | *pričinama | *pričinamъ |
accusative | *pričinǫ | *pričině | *pričiny |
instrumental | *pričinojǫ, *pričinǫ** | *pričinama | *pričinami |
locative | *pričině | *pričinu | *pričinasъ, *pričinaxъ* |
vocative | *pričino | *pričině | *pričiny |
* -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).
** 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
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic
- → Romanian: pricină
Further reading
edit- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “причи́на”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress