Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pǫtьnikъ

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 *pǫtь +‎ *-ьnikъ.

Noun

*pǫtьnikъ m

1. traveler, wayfarer

Inflection

Declension of *pǫtьnikъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pǫtьnikъ	*pǫtьnika	*pǫtьnici
genitive	*pǫtьnika	*pǫtьniku	*pǫtьnikъ
dative	*pǫtьniku	*pǫtьnikoma	*pǫtьnikomъ
accusative	*pǫtьnikъ	*pǫtьnika	*pǫtьniky
instrumental	*pǫtьnikъmь, *pǫtьnikomь*	*pǫtьnikoma	*pǫtьniky
locative	*pǫtьnicě	*pǫtьniku	*pǫtьnicěxъ
vocative	*pǫtьniče	*pǫtьnika	*pǫtьnici

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: путникъ (putnikŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: пу́тникъ (pútnik)
      • Ukrainian: пу́тник (pútnyk)
    • Russian: пу́тник (pútnik)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: пѫтьникъ (pǫtĭnikŭ)

  • Bulgarian: пъ́тник (pǎ́tnik)
  • Macedonian: патник (patnik)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пу̑тнӣк

    Latin script: pȗtnīk

  • Slovene: pǫ̑tnik (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: poutník
  • Old Polish: pątnik
    • Polish: pątnik (literary)
    • Silesian: pōntnik
  • Slovak: pútnik

Further reading

• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “пътник”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 122