Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/umъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *aum-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-m-o-, a derivation of *h₂ew- (“to see, perceive”). Cognate with Lithuanian aumuõ (“mind”) and indirectly Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “to perceive”), Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “openly, manifestly, evidently”), Latin audiō, and Hittite 𒌋𒀪𒄭 (u-uḫ-ḫi, “I see”).

Noun

*ũmъ m

1. mind

Declension

Declension of *ũmъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ũmъ	*ūmà	*ūmì
genitive	*ūmà	*ūmù	*ũmъ
dative	*ūmù	*ūmòma	*ūmòmъ
accusative	*ũmъ	*ūmà	*ūmỳ
instrumental	*ūmъ̀mь, *ūmòmь*	*ūmòma	*ũmy
locative	*ūmě̀	*ūmù	*ũměxъ
vocative	*ume	*ūmà	*ūmì

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

Derived terms

• *orzumъ
• *uměti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: умъ (umŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: умъ (um)
      • Belarusian: ум (um)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: ум (um)
      • Ukrainian: ум (um)
    • Russian: ум (um)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: оумъ (umŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱆⰿⱏ (umŭ)

  • Bulgarian: ум (um)
  • Macedonian: ум (um)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: у̑м

    Latin script: ȗm

  • Slovene: úm
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: um (literary)
  • Polish: um
  • Slovak: um

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ум”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress