Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/těmę
Proto-SlavicEdit
EtymologyEdit
According to R. Matasović[1], from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”) + *-mn̥, with eventual loss of pre-Slavic *g before *m. Vasmer and Snoj allude a possible relation to Proto-Slavic *tęti (“to chop”) from Proto-Indo-European *temh₂-, however, such a derivation is semantically dubious and does not explain the long *-ě-. Sometimes also compared to Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”) of uncertain origin (probably from Proto-Indo-European *tweH- (“to swell”), akin to Proto-Slavic *tylъ (“back of the neck”)).
NounEdit
DeclensionEdit
Declension of *těmę (n-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
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Nominative | *těmę | *tě̀meni | *tě̀menā |
Accusative | *těmę | *tě̀meni | *tě̀menā |
Genitive | *tě̀mene | *tě̀menu | *tě̀menъ |
Locative | *tě̀mene | *tě̀menu | *tě̀menьxъ |
Dative | *tě̀meni | *tě̀menьma | *tě̀menьmъ |
Instrumental | *tě̀menьmь | *tě̀menьma | *tě̀menȳ |
Vocative | *těmę | *tě̀meni | *tě̀menā |
DescendantsEdit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further readingEdit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “те́мя”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Todorov T., editor (2010), “теме”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 926
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Matasović , Ranko (2010), “The loss of *g before *m in Proto-Slavic”, in Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje 36/2[1], pages 299-306
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*těmę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 492
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016), “teme”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *tě̋mę, rod. *tě̋mene”