aucima

Sudovian

Etymology

Composed of two morphemes, au- and cima:[1]

The prefix au- is from Proto-Balto-Slavic *au- (“away from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew (“away from”).
The morpheme cima is likely from Proto-Balto-Slavic *káimas, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *ḱey- (“to settle”).

Cognates

au-: Compare Old Prussian aumūsnan (“ablution”), aulāut (“to die”). Corresponds to Proto-Slavic *u- (“away”). The prefix au- exists in the Eastern Baltic languages too,[2] but is less common, e.g. in Lithuanian mostly supplanted by nu-.
cima: Compare Lithuanian káimas (“village, countryside”), kiẽmas (“courtyard, village”), Latvian ciems (“village”), Old Prussian caymis (“village”).

Noun

aucima

village, countryside
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 16, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
  wieſ [wieś] — aucima
  wieſ [wieś] — countryside

References

Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 69: “aucima ‘kaimas, sodžius, l. wieſ’ 16.”
Derksen, Rick (2015) “au-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 68

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