Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pozorъ

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

*po- +‎ *zorъ, derived from *zьrěti (“to observe”).

Noun

*pozorъ m

1. attention, sight
2. (by extension) shame

Declension

Declension of *pozorъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pozorъ	*pozora	*pozori
genitive	*pozora	*pozoru	*pozorъ
dative	*pozoru	*pozoroma	*pozoromъ
accusative	*pozorъ	*pozora	*pozory
instrumental	*pozorъmь, *pozoromь*	*pozoroma	*pozory
locative	*pozorě	*pozoru	*pozorěxъ
vocative	*pozore	*pozora	*pozori

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

Derived terms

• *pozorьnostь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: позо́ръ (pozór)
    • Ukrainian: позі́р (pozír), позо́р (pozór)
  • Russian: позо́р (pozór)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: позоръ (pozorŭ)

  • Bulgarian: позор (pozor)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̀зор

    Latin script: pòzor

  • Slovene: pozòr (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pozor
  • Polish: pozór
  • Slovak: pozor

Further reading

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