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 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

Traditionally compared with Lithuanian kãmas (“chunk”), kamuolỹs (“ball”), Latvian kams (“mass, clod”), kamols (“ball”), probably from a common Proto-Balto-Slavic *kam⁽ˀ⁾as (“mass”). Further comparison has been drawn to Sanskrit शम् (śam, “to toil, to wreck”), Ancient Greek κᾰ́μνω (kắmnō, “to exert, to work hard”), presumably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱemh₂- (“to exert force, to get toiled”).

It is uncertain if the current term is related to homonymous *komъ (“bulge, mound”), attested in South Slavic: Bulgarian Ком (Kom), Комощи́ца (Komoštíca) (oronyms), dial. Serbo-Croatian ко̏м, ко̀мац (“hill, steep”) (alternatively compared with Romanian coamă (“ridge, crest”) < Latin coma (“hair”)). Compare Russian кому́ля (komúlja, “lump of earth”).

Noun

*komъ m

  1. clod (East Slavic)
  2. (secondary) lump of marc, refuse matter (West, South Slavic)
    Coordinate term: *komina

Alternative forms

Declension

Declension of *komъ (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *komъ *koma *komi
genitive *koma *komu *komъ
dative *komu *komoma *komomъ
accusative *komъ *koma *komy
instrumental *komъmь, *komomь* *komoma *komy
locative *komě *komu *koměxъ
vocative *kome *koma *komi

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

Derived terms

  • *komęga (“type of vessel, boat”)
  • *komolъ (“hornless, mutilated”) (possibly)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: ком (kom)
    • Russian: ком (kom)
    • Ukrainian: ком (kom)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal, obsolescent)
      Cyrillic script: ко̏м, ко̏ма f (“marc”)
      Latin script: kȍm, kȍma f (“marc, dross”)
    • Slovene: kom (“ball, clump”) (dialectal)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*komъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 179
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ком”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “Ком”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 572
  • “kamas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė , 2007–2012
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