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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/komaxa

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

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *komH- (“to hum”).

Noun

*komaxa or *komasa f

  1. (dialectal) small insect (such as ant, mosquito, midge)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Ukrainian: кома́ха (komáxa, “insect”)
      • ⇒ Ukrainian: кома́ство (komástvo, “insects”) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Ukrainian: комашня́ (komašnjá, “insects; ants, anthill”), комахня́ (komaxnjá, “anthill; red ants”) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Ukrainian: кома́шни́к (komášnýk, “anthill”)
      • ⇒ Ukrainian: комаши́на (komašýna, “insect”)
      • ⇒ Ukrainian: кома́шка (komáška, “small insect; ant”)
      • ⇒ Ukrainian: комашни́ця (komašnýcja, “anthill”) (dialectal)
    • Russian: комаха́ (komaxá, “cochineal”) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Russian: кома́шка (komáška, “small insect; mosquito; midge”) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Russian: комашни́к (komašník, “anthill”) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Russian: комашня́ (komašnjá, “swarm of mosquitoes or midges; ants”) (dialectal)
  • West Slavic:
    • Polish: kómasy pl (“mosquitoes”)

Further reading
  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “кома́ха”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 532
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