Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/priroda

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

Postverbal formation of *roditi.

Noun

*priroda f

1. nature

Declension

Declension of *priroda (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*priroda	*prirodě	*prirody
genitive	*prirody	*prirodu	*prirodъ
dative	*prirodě	*prirodama	*prirodamъ
accusative	*prirodǫ	*prirodě	*prirody
instrumental	*prirodojǫ, *prirodǫ**	*prirodama	*prirodami
locative	*prirodě	*prirodu	*prirodasъ, *prirodaxъ*
vocative	*prirodo	*prirodě	*prirody

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: приро́да (priróda)
    • Belarusian: прыро́да (pryróda)
    • Ukrainian: приро́да (pryróda)
  • Russian: приро́да (priróda)
    • → Czech: příroda
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: приро́да (priróda)
  • Macedonian: при́рода (príroda)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: при́рода

    Latin script: príroda

  • Slovene: priróda (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: przyroda
  • Slovak: príroda
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pśiroda
    • Upper Sorbian: přiroda

Further reading

• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “природа”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 731