Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/onamo

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 *onъ +‎ *-mo.

Adverb

*onamo

1. thereto; there

See also

Type	*kъto	*jь	*jьnъ	*onъ	*ovъ	*sь	*tъ	*vьśь
Time	*kogъda	*jegъda	*jьnogъda	*onogъda	*ovogъda	*segъda	*togъda	*vьśegъda
Place (to)	*kǫda	*jǫdu	*jьnǫdu	*onǫda	*ovǫda	*sǫda	*tǫda	*vьśǫdu
Place (to/in)	*kamo	*jamo	*jьnamo	*onamo	*ovamo	*sěmo	*tamo	*vьśamo
Place (in)	*kъde	*jьde	*jьnъde	*onъde	*ovъde	*sьde	*tu	*vьśьde
Way	*kako	*jako	*jьnako	*onako	*ovako	*sice	*tako	*vьśako
Amount	*koliko	*jeliko	*jьnoliko	*onoliko	*ovoliko	*seliko	*toliko	—

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: онамо (onamo, “thereto; there”)
    • Belarusian: гэнам (henam, “there”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: онамо (onamo, “thereto”)
  • Bulgarian: она́мо (onámo, “there”)
  • Macedonian: онаму (onamu, “there, thereto”)
  • Serbo-Croatian: onamo (“thereto; there; then”), онам
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: onamo (“thereto”), onam
    • Czech: onamo (“thereto”) (obsolete), onam (archaic, nowadays occurs only in few phrases with the word tam, such as "tam i onam" meaning "here and there")
  • Polabian: vånom (“thereto”)
  • Old Polish: onam (“thereto”)
  • Slovak: onam (“to another place, thereto; in another place”)

References

• Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*onamo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 85
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “онамо”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 671