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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jara
Proto-Slavic
Alternative reconstructions
- *ěra (Derksen)
Noun
*jara f[1][2]
- Alternative form of *jaro (“spring”)
Declension
Declension of *jara (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *jara | *jarě | *jary |
Accusative | *jarǫ | *jarě | *jary |
Genitive | *jary | *jaru | *jarъ |
Locative | *jarě | *jaru | *jarasъ, *jaraxъ* |
Dative | *jarě | *jarama | *jaramъ |
Instrumental | *jarojǫ, *jarǫ** | *jarama | *jarami |
Vocative | *jaro | *jarě | *jary |
* -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).
** 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 East Slavic: ꙗра (jara)
- South Slavic:
- Church Slavonic: ꙗра (jara) (Russian recension)
- Bulgarian: яра́ (jará); йара (jara) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: јара (jara)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ја̏ра
- Latin: jȁra
References
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*jaro / *jara / *jarъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 175
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “jary I”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
Further reading
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ěro *ěra *ěrъ I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 151