Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/aščerica
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
 |
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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]*aščerica f[1]
Alternative forms
[edit]Inflection
[edit]Declension of *aščerica (soft a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *aščerica | *aščerici | *aščericę̇ |
| genitive | *aščericę̇ | *aščericu | *aščericь |
| dative | *aščerici | *aščericama | *aščericamъ |
| accusative | *aščericǫ | *aščerici | *aščericę̇ |
| instrumental | *aščericejǫ, *aščericǫ** | *aščericama | *aščericami |
| locative | *aščerici | *aščericu | *aščericasъ, *aščericaxъ* |
| vocative | *aščerice | *aščerici | *aščericę̇ |
* -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.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: аштерица (ašterica)
- Serbo-Croatian: (rare)
- Cyrillic script: jа̏штерица
- Latin script: jȁšterica
- Chakavian (Vrgada): jȁšćerica
- Slovene: jȃščerica (tonal orthography) (rare)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: ještěřice
- Kashubian: wieszczerzëca
- Polabian: vistăraićă
- Old Polish: jeszczerzyca
- Slovak: jašterica
- Slovincian: jeszczêrëca
- Sorbian:
Further reading
[edit]- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*аščerica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 87
References
[edit]- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*aščerъ; *aščerica”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 30: “m. o; f. jā ‘lizard’”