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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/peťera
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Proto-Slavic
Alternative reconstructions
- *petjera
- *pektera
Etymology
From *peťь (“oven”) + *-era, from *peťi (“to bake”) + *-tь.
Probably unrelated to Latin specus (“cave”)
Noun
*peťera f
- cave
Declension
Declension of *peťera (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *peťera | *peťerě | *peťery |
| Accusative | *peťerǫ | *peťerě | *peťery |
| Genitive | *peťery | *peťeru | *peťerъ |
| Locative | *peťerě | *peťeru | *peťerasъ, *peťeraxъ* |
| Dative | *peťerě | *peťerama | *peťeramъ |
| Instrumental | *peťerojǫ, *peťerǫ** | *peťerama | *peťerami |
| Vocative | *peťero | *peťerě | *peťery |
* -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).
See also
- *askyni/*ěskyni
- *jama
- *vьrtьpъ
Related terms
- *pečura (possibly)
Derived terms
- *peťerьnъ
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: печера (pečera)
- Belarusian: пячо́ра (pjačóra)
- → Polish: pieczara (possibly)
- → Kashubian: pieczara (proscribed)
- Russian: печо́ра (pečóra)
- ⇒ Russian: печу́рка (pečúrka)
- Ukrainian: пече́ра (pečéra)
- Old East Slavic: печера (pečera)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: пещера (peštera)
- Bulgarian: пещера́ (pešterá)
- → Russian: пеще́ра (peščéra)
- Macedonian: пештера (peštera)
- Serbo-Croatian: — (пѐћина)
- Old Church Slavonic: пещера (peštera)
- West Slavic
- Kashubian: piecara
- → Aromanian: pishtireauã
- → Romanian: peșteră
Further reading
- Wiesław Boryś (2005), “pieczara”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego, Wydawnictwo Literackie, page 427
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “печо́ра”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пещера”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “пещера”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 30
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “печурка”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 29
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902), “печера”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 2: Л – П, Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 927
- France Bezlaj; Marko Snoj; Metka Furlan (1995), “pejca”, in Etimološki slovar slovenskega jezika, volume 3, Mladinska Knjiga, page 21