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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prostorъ
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Proto-Slavic
Alternative forms
- *perstorъ
- *prostora
Etymology
Deverbal from *prosterti, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-sterh₃-, from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-. Cognate with Sanskrit प्रस्तार (prastāra, “measure, permutation”).
Noun
*prostòrъ m[1]
- space, expanse
Inflection
Declension of *prostorъ (hard o-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *prostorъ | *prostora | *prostori |
| Accusative | *prostorъ | *prostora | *prostory |
| Genitive | *prostora | *prostoru | *prostorъ |
| Locative | *prostorě | *prostoru | *prostorěxъ |
| Dative | *prostoru | *prostoroma | *prostoromъ |
| Instrumental | *prostorъmь, *prostoromь* | *prostoroma | *prostory |
| Vocative | *prostore | *prostora | *prostori |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *prostorьnъ (“vast”)
Related terms
- *prosterti (“space, expanse”)
- *stornà (“side, land”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic:
- Belarusian: прасто́ра (prastóra)
- Russian: просто́р (prostór)
- Ukrainian: про́стір (próstir)
- Old East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: просторъ (prostorŭ)
- Glagolitic: ⱂⱃⱁⱄⱅⱁⱃⱛ (prostorü)
- Bulgarian: просто́р (prostór)
- Macedonian: простор (prostor)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: про́стор
- Latin: próstor
- Slovene: próstor (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: prostor
- Polabian: prăstöră
- Old Polish: przestór
- Polish: przestwór
- Slovak: priestor
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: přesćera
- Lower Sorbian: pśestwor
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “простор”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Duridanov I., Račeva M., Todorov T., editor (1996), “простор”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 773
References
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “prostor”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *prostòrъ”