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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ortajь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *arˀtāˀjas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plow”).
Noun
*ortajь m
- ploughman
- farmer
Declension
Declension of *ortajь (soft o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *ortajь | *ortaja | *ortaji |
Accusative | *ortajь | *ortaja | *ortaję̇ |
Genitive | *ortaja | *ortaju | *ortajь |
Locative | *ortaji | *ortaju | *ortajixъ |
Dative | *ortaju | *ortajema | *ortajemъ |
Instrumental | *ortajьmь, *ortajemь* | *ortajema | *ortaji |
Vocative | *ortaju | *ortaja | *ortaji |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ратаи (ratai)
- Russian: ра́тай (rátaj)
- Ukrainian: рата́й (ratáj)
- Old East Slavic: ратаи (ratai)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: ратаи (ratai)
- Bulgarian: ратай (rataj)
- Macedonian: ратај (rataj) (archaic)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ра̏та̄р
- Latin: rȁtār
- Slovene: rátaj (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: rataj, ratej
- Polish: rataj
- Slovak: rataj
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: rataj
- Lower Sorbian: rataj
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ра́тай”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress