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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gutorъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾owH- (“to call, name”) + *-torъ. Possibly akin to Slovak hutať (“to guess, to ponder”), Ukrainian гута́ти (hutáty, “to disrupt discussion”) (whence гу́танка (hútanka, “chatter, chaotic discussion”)), formally reflecting Proto-Slavic *gutati.
Noun
*gutorъ m
- discussion, chat
- Synonyms: *besěda, *orzgovorъ
Alternative forms
- *gutora f
Declension
Declension of *gutorъ (hard o-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *gutorъ | *gutora | *gutori |
| Accusative | *gutorъ | *gutora | *gutory |
| Genitive | *gutora | *gutoru | *gutorъ |
| Locative | *gutorě | *gutoru | *gutorěxъ |
| Dative | *gutoru | *gutoroma | *gutoromъ |
| Instrumental | *gutorъmь, *gutoromь* | *gutoroma | *gutory |
| Vocative | *gutore | *gutora | *gutori |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *gutoriti (“to talk, to chat”)
Related terms
- *gavьra (“ridicule, mockery”)
- *govorъ (“uttarence, talk”)
- *gvarъ, *gvara (“vernacular, idiom”)
- *gǫsti (“to make noise, to play music”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: гу́тор (gútor); гуто́р (gutór), гуто́ра f (gutóra) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: гу́тір (hútir)
- West Slavic:
- Slovak: hútor (dialectal)
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “гутор”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gutoriti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 179