Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/netopyřь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/netopyřь

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

Compounded term, with the first element *neto- possibly reflecting Proto-Indo-European *nekʷto-, oblique e-grade of *nókʷts (“night”). The second element is usually taken to be *pyřь (“flier”), from the lengthened zero grade of the same root also found in *pariti and *pьrati. Another theory states it is the result of folk etymology or taboo deformation, based on *lepetyřь, *lepotyřь from *lepetati, *lepotati (“to fly irregularly; to be noisy by being screamy”) +‎ *-yřь.[1]

Noun

*netopyřь m[2]

1. bat (flying mammal)

Declension

Declension of *netopyřь (soft o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*netopyřь	*netopyřa	*netopyři
Accusative	*netopyřь	*netopyřa	*netopyřę̇
Genitive	*netopyřa	*netopyřu	*netopyřь
Locative	*netopyři	*netopyřu	*netopyřixъ
Dative	*netopyřu	*netopyřema	*netopyřemъ
Instrumental	*netopyřьmь, *netopyřemь*	*netopyřema	*netopyři
Vocative	*netopyřu	*netopyřa	*netopyři

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: нетопꙑрь (netopyrĭ), нопотꙑрь (nopotyrĭ)
    • Belarusian: нетапы́р (njetapýr)
    • Russian: нетопы́рь (netopýrʹ)
    • Ukrainian: нетопи́р (netopýr)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: нетопꙑрь (netopyrĭ), нопотꙑрь (nopotyrĭ), непьтꙑрь (nepĭtyrĭ), нептꙑрь (neptyrĭ)
  • Bulgarian: нетопи́р (netopír)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: не̏топӣр

    Latin: nȅtopīr

  • Slovene: netopír, netopȋr (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: netopýř
    • Czech: netopýr
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): nedopyjr
  • Polabian: netüpar
  • Old Polish: nietopyrz
    • Polish: nietoperz
  • Slovak: netopier
  • Slovincian: ńetopėř
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: njetopyr, njetopor
    • Lower Sorbian: njetopyŕ

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*ne(k)topyrь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 143
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “нетопырь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Machek, Václav (1968), “netopýr”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého, 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 397
2. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*netopyŗь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 350: “m. jo ‘bat’”