Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/duma

Etymology
Traditionally viewed (per Miklošič, Ulhenbeck, Berneker) as a borrowing, ultimately from (some derivative of), perhaps a deverbal of.

Attempts for native etymology include: Fick tentatively compares the Slavic word with 🇨🇬 (of dubious meaning), 🇨🇬 (< pre-Hellenic ), based on phonetic similarities.
 * Mladenov, Stender-Petersen: From, akin to 🇨🇬, , perhaps originally meaning “breath, spirit”. Compare 🇨🇬, occasionally also “thought, mind”.
 * Vaillant: Contracted from hypothetical < . Compare  (whence 🇨🇬).
 * Machek: From an inversion of root, otherwise yielding 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) breath, breathing
 * 2) (uttered) word
 * 3) advice, council
 * 4) thought

Descendants

 * Church Slavonic: (Russian)


 * East Slavic: ,
 * South Slavic:
 * Macedonian: dial.
 * West Slavic:
 * South Slavic:
 * Macedonian: dial.
 * West Slavic:
 * West Slavic:
 * West Slavic:
 * West Slavic:
 * West Slavic:


 * Non-Slavic: