Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oči

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 Early Proto-Slavic *ačī˙,^[1] from Proto-Balto-Slavic *akīˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ókʷih₁, dual of *h₃ókʷs (“eye”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὄσσε (ósse), Old Armenian աչք (ačʻkʻ), Kativiri ačé, Albanian sy.

Noun

*ȍči du^[2]^[1]

nominative/accusative/vocative dual of *oko (“eye”)

Inflection

Declension of *ȍči (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	dual
nominative	*ȍči
genitive	očьjù, oču^*
dative	*očьmà
accusative	*ȍči
instrumental	*očьmà
locative	očьjù, oču^*
vocative	*ȍči

^* 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

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: очи du (oči)
  - Old Ruthenian: о́чи pl (óči), о́чы pl (óčy), во́чи pl (vóči), во́чы pl (vóčy)
    - Belarusian: во́чы (vóčy); о́чы pl (óčy) (dialectal)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: о́чі pl (óči), во́чі pl (vóči)
    - Ukrainian: о́чі pl (óči); о́чи pl (óčy) (dialectal)
  - Russian: о́чи pl (óči); во́чи pl (vóči) (dialectal)
- Old Novgorodian: оци du (oći)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Glagolitic script: ⱁⱍⰻ du (oči)
  
  Old Cyrillic script: очи du (oči)
  - Bulgarian: очи́ pl (očí); о́чи pl (óči) (dialectal)
  - Macedonian: очи pl (oči)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: о̏чи pl
  
  Latin script: ȍči pl
- Slovene: očȋ pl; аčí pl (dialectal)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: oči du
  - Czech: oči du
- Old Polish: oczy
  - Polish: oczy pl
  - Silesian: ôczy pl
- Old Slovak: oči pl
  - Pannonian Rusyn: очи pl (oči)
  - Slovak: oči pl
- Polabian:
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian:
  - Slovincian:
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: woči du
  - Upper Sorbian: wócy du

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Klotz, Emanuel (2017) “*ačī˙ «oči»”, in Urslawisches Wörterbuch [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in German), 1st edition, Wien: Facultas, →ISBN, page 56
^ Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*oči”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 13

[UW-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Klotz, Emanuel (2017) “*ačī˙ «oči»”, in Urslawisches Wörterbuch [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in German), 1st edition, Wien: Facultas, →ISBN, page 56

[ESSJa-2] Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*oči”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 13

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