Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/omъča

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 *o(b)- + *mъťi + *-ja.

Noun

*omъča f

1. noose

Inflection

Declension of *omъča (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*omъča	*omъči	*omъčę̇
genitive	*omъčę̇	*omъču	*omъčь
dative	*omъči	*omъčama	*omъčamъ
accusative	*omъčǫ	*omъči	*omъčę̇
instrumental	*omъčejǫ, *omъčǫ**	*omъčama	*omъčami
locative	*omъči	*omъču	*omъčasъ, *omъčaxъ*
vocative	*omъče	*omъči	*omъčę̇

^* -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

• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̑мча

    Latin script: ȏmča

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2001), “*obmъča”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 28 (*oblězti – *obpovědanьje), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 90