Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mačerъ

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

From *maca (“cat, pussy”) +‎ *-erъ (“male suffix”). Compare *gǫserъ < *gǫsь.

Noun

*mačerъ m

1. a male cat; tomcat

Inflection

Declension of *mačerъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mačerъ	*mačera	*mačeri
genitive	*mačera	*mačeru	*mačerъ
dative	*mačeru	*mačeroma	*mačeromъ
accusative	*mačerъ	*mačera	*mačery
instrumental	*mačerъmь, *mačeromь*	*mačeroma	*mačery
locative	*mačerě	*mačeru	*mačerěxъ
vocative	*mačere	*mačera	*mačeri

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

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ма́чор (máčor)
  • Macedonian: ма́чор (máčor)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мачор, мачур

    Latin: mačor, mačur

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: ма́цу́р (mácúr)

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*mačerъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 116