Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kamy

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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-mō

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō

Proto-Balto-Slavic *kā́ˀmō

Proto-Slavic *kamy

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kā́ˀmō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō.

Noun

*kàmy m^[1]^[2]^[3]

stone

Declension

Declension of *kàmy (n-stem, accent paradigm a)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kàmy	*kàmeni	*kàmene
genitive	*kàmene	*kàmenu	*kàmenъ
dative	*kàmeni	*kàmenьma	*kàmenьmъ
accusative	*kàmenь	*kàmeni	*kàmeni
instrumental	*kàmenьmь	*kàmenьma	*kàmenьmī
locative	*kàmene	*kàmenu	*kàmenьxъ
vocative	*kàmy	*kàmeni	*kàmene

Derived terms

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: камꙑ (kamy), камень (kamenĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: ка́мень (kámenʹ)
    - Belarusian: ка́мень (kámjenʹ)
    - Middle Ukrainian: ка́мѣнь (káminʹ)
      - Carpathian Rusyn: ка́мінь (káminʹ)
      - Ukrainian: ка́мінь (káminʹ)
  - Russian: ка́мень (kámenʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: камꙑ (kamy)
  
  Glagolitic: ⰽⰰⰿⱏⰺ (kamy)
- Bulgarian: ка́мък (kámǎk), ка́мен (kámen) (Western dialects)
- Macedonian: камен (kamen)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ка̑м, ка̏ме̄н
  
  Latin: kȃm, kami, kȁmēn
- Slovene: kámən (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: kámen
  - Czech: kámen
- Old Polish: kamień, kamienie
  - Polish: kamień
  - Silesian: kamiyń
- Old Slovak: kameň
  - Pannonian Rusyn: камень (kamenʹ)
  - Slovak: kameň
- Polabian: komoi
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: kam, kamiéń, kamiń
  - Slovincian: kam, kamë, kamjeń
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: kamjeń
  - Lower Sorbian: kamjeń

→ Hungarian: Kamon

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kamy”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 220: “m. n ‘stone, rock’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001), “kamy kamene”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 73, 155; PR 132)”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016), “kámen”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*ka̋my, tož. *ka̋menь”