Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kamo

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.

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷō- +‎ *-mo, instrumental singular of *kʷo-.

Compare Ancient Greek πῆμος (pêmos, “when”) (< *kʷā-mo).

*kamo

1. whereto

• Church Slavonic: камо (kamo), камоу (kamu) (Russian)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: камо (kamo)
    • Middle Belarusian: камо (kamo)
    • Russian: камода́ (kamodá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: камо (kamo)

    Glagolitic script:

  • Bulgarian: ка́мо (kámo), кам (kam)
  • Macedonian: камо (kamo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ка̏мо, кам

    Latin script: kȁmo, kam

  • Slovene: kám, kȃm, kámo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kamo, kam
    • Czech: kam, kamo (obsolete), kamy (dialectal)
  • Polabian: kom
  • Old Polish: kamo, kam
  • Slovak: kam
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: kam

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “камо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kamo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 9 (*jьz – *klenьje), Moscow: Nauka, page 136
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “камо”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ ‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1187