Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/aščerъka

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/aščerъka

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

Alternative forms

• *ěščerъka, *jaščerъka

Etymology

From *aščerъ +‎ *-ъka.

Noun

*aščerъka f

1. feminine of *aščerъ (“lizard, salamander”)

   Synonym: *aščerica

Inflection

Declension of *aščerъka (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*aščerъka	*aščerъcě	*aščerъky
Accusative	*aščerъkǫ	*aščerъcě	*aščerъky
Genitive	*aščerъky	*aščerъku	*aščerъkъ
Locative	*aščerъcě	*aščerъku	*aščerъkasъ, *aščerъkaxъ*
Dative	*aščerъcě	*aščerъkama	*aščerъkamъ
Instrumental	*aščerъkojǫ, *aščerъkǫ**	*aščerъkama	*aščerъkami
Vocative	*aščerъko	*aščerъcě	*aščerъky

^* -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).

Related terms

nouns

• *aščelь
• *aščerь

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: я́шчарка (jáščarka)
  • Russian: я́щерка (jáščerka)
  • Ukrainian: я́щірка (jáščirka)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ještěrka
  • Old Polish: jaszczórka, jeszczórka
    • Polish: jaszczurka
  • Silesian: lŏszczurka

Further reading

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