Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nora
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Balto-Slavic *norʔ-. Cognate with Lithuanian naras, nara (“hole, lair”).
Noun
[edit]*norà f[1]
Inflection
[edit]Declension of *norà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *norà | *nȍrě | *nȍry |
genitive | *norý | *norù | *nòrъ |
dative | *norě̀ | *noràma | *noràmъ |
accusative | *nȍrǫ | *nȍrě | *nȍry |
instrumental | *norojǫ́ | *noràma | *noràmi |
locative | *nȍrě | *norù | *noràsъ, *noràxъ* |
vocative | *noro | *nȍrě | *nȍry |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Church Slavonic: нора (nora)
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Slovene: nora
- West Slavic:
Further reading
[edit]- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nora”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 184
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “нора”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
[edit]- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*norà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 355: “f. ā (c) ‘den, lair’”