Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/guščerъ

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

Most likely a compound of *gu- (“serpentile”) +‎ *ščerъ with uncertain meaning of second element. See standard *aščerъ for further discussion.

Noun

*gùščerъ m

1. Alternative form of *aščerъ (“lizard”)

Inflection

Declension of *guščerъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*guščerъ	*guščera	*guščeri
genitive	*guščera	*guščeru	*guščerъ
dative	*guščeru	*guščeroma	*guščeromъ
accusative	*guščerъ	*guščera	*guščery
instrumental	*guščerъmь, *guščeromь*	*guščeroma	*guščery
locative	*guščerě	*guščeru	*guščerěxъ
vocative	*guščere	*guščera	*guščeri

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

Derived terms

• *guščerica, *guščerina

Related terms

• *guja (“serpent”)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: гу́щер (gúšter)
  • Macedonian: гуштер (gušter)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гу̏штер

    Latin script: gȕšter

  • Slovene: gúščer, kuščar (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polabian: gä́ustar

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: gușter
  • → Aromanian: guștir, guștur
  • → Greek: γουσκέρα (gouskéra)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*guščerъ/*guščerica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 179
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гущер”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 297