Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buřa

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *baurjā. Cognates include Latvian baũr̨uôt, Latin furō, Old Norse byrr, Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati).

If Van Wijk's law holds, the ja-endings were lengthened to ā, except for for the endings for Gsg., Asg., and NApl., which were nasal vowels at the time of Van Wijk's law.[1]

Noun

*bùřa or *bùřā f[2][1][3]

storm

Declension

Declension of *bùřa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*bùřa	*bùři	*bùřę̇
Accusative	*bùřǫ	*bùři	*bùřę̇
Genitive	*bùřę̇	*bùřu	*bùřь
Locative	*bùřī	*bùřu	*bùřāsъ
Dative	*bùřī	*bùřama	*bùřāmъ
Instrumental	bùřējǫ, bùřǭ^*	*bùřama	*bùřāmī
Vocative	*bùře	*bùři	*bùřę̇

^* 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).

Declension of *bùřā (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*bùřā	*bùři	*bùřę̇
Accusative	*bùřǫ	*bùři	*bùřę̇
Genitive	*bùřę̇	*bùřu	*bùřь
Locative	*bùřī	*bùřu	*bùřāsъ
Dative	*bùřī	*bùřama	*bùřāmъ
Instrumental	bùřējǫ, bùřǭ^*	*bùřama	*bùřāmī
Vocative	*bùře	*bùři	*bùřę̇

^* 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).

Alternative forms

*bura

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: бу́рꙗ (búrja)
  - Belarusian: бу́ра (búra)
  - Russian: бу́ря (búrja)
  - Ukrainian: бу́ря (búrja)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: бу́рꙗ (búrja)
- Bulgarian: бу́ря (búrja), бу́ра (búra) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: бу́ра (búra)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: бу̏ра
  Latin: bȕra
- Slovene: búrja
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: búřě
  - Czech: bouře
- Polish: burza
- Slovak: búra; bura

References

Verweij, Arno (1994), “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎, volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 510
Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bùŗa; bùra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 68: “f. jā (a) ‘storm’”
Olander, Thomas (2001), “burja”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132; RPT 110)”

[verweij-1] Verweij, Arno (1994), “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎, volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 510

[2] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bùŗa; bùra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 68: “f. jā (a) ‘storm’”

[3] Olander, Thomas (2001), “burja”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132; RPT 110)”