Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žirъ

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

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Possibly, related to *žiti (“to live”)

Noun

*žirъ m

1. feed?, fodder?, grease?

Declension

Declension of *žirъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*žirъ	*žira	*žiri
genitive	*žira	*žiru	*žirъ
dative	*žiru	*žiroma	*žiromъ
accusative	*žirъ	*žira	*žiry
instrumental	*žirъmь, *žiromь*	*žiroma	*žiry
locative	*žirě	*žiru	*žirěxъ
vocative	*žire	*žira	*žiri

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: жиръ (žirŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: жиръ (žir)
      • Belarusian: жыр (žyr)
      • Ukrainian: жир (žyr)
    • Russian: жир (žir)
  • Old Novgorodian: жире (žire)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⰶⰻⱃⱏ (žirŭ)

    Old Cyrillic script: жиръ (žirŭ)

    • Bulgarian: жир (žir) (dialectal, obsolete)
    • Macedonian: жир (žir)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: жи̑р

    Latin script: žȋr

  • Slovene: žȋr (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: žír
  • Old Polish: żyr
    • Polish: żyr (obsolete), żer
  • Slovak: žír

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: zsír

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жир”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress