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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sirota
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *sirъ + *-ota.
Noun
*sirota f
- orphan
Declension
Declension of *sirota (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *sirota | *sirotě | *siroty |
| Accusative | *sirotǫ | *sirotě | *siroty |
| Genitive | *siroty | *sirotu | *sirotъ |
| Locative | *sirotě | *sirotu | *sirotasъ, *sirotaxъ* |
| Dative | *sirotě | *sirotama | *sirotamъ |
| Instrumental | *sirotojǫ, *sirotǫ** | *sirotama | *sirotami |
| Vocative | *siroto | *sirotě | *siroty |
* -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: сирота (sirota)
- Old Belarusian: сирота (sirota)[1]
- Belarusian: сірота́ (sirotá)
- Russian: сирота́ (sirotá)
- Old Ukrainian: сирота (sirota)[2]
- Ukrainian: сирота́ (syrotá)
- Old Belarusian: сирота (sirota)[1]
- Old East Slavic: сирота (sirota)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: сирота (sirota)
- Glagolitic: ⱄⰻⱃⱁⱅⰰ (sirota)
- Bulgarian: сирота́ (sirotá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сиро̀та
- Latin: siròta
- Slovene: sirota
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: sirota
- Czech: sirota
- Old Polish: sirota
- Polish: sierota
- Slovak: sirota
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: syrota
- Upper Sorbian: syrota
- Old Czech: sirota
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “си́рый”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Bulyka, A. M., editor (2011), “сирота”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 31 (рушаючий – смущенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 271
- Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “сирота”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2: Н – Ѳ, Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 346