Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/storna

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

From Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch”) + *-nъ +‎ *-a.

Noun

stornà f

side; land

Inflection

Declension of *stornà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*stornà	*stȏrně	*stȏrny
Accusative	*stȏrnǫ	*stȏrně	*stȏrny
Genitive	*storný	*stornù	*stõrnъ
Locative	*stȏrně	*stornù	stornàsъ, stornàxъ^*
Dative	*storně̀	*stornàma	*stornàmъ
Instrumental	*stornojǫ́	*stornàma	*stornàmi
Vocative	*storno	*stȏrně	*stȏrny

^* -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.

Related terms

*storniti (“to shun, to make way”)
*prostorъ (“expanse”)
*prostornьstvo (“space, scope”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: старана́ (staraná)
- Russian: сторона́ (storoná)
- Ukrainian: сторона́ (storoná)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Cyrillic: страна (strana)
  - Glagolitic: ⱄⱅⱃⰰⱀⰰ (strana)
    - → Old East Slavic: страна (strana)
      - Russian: страна́ (straná)
- Bulgarian: страна́ (straná)
- Macedonian: страна (strana)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: стра́на
  Latin: strána
- Slovene: strána
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: strana
  - Czech: strana
    - Bohemian (Chod dialect): strana
    - Moravian (Mistřice): strana
- Kashubian: stôrna, strona
- Polabian: stornă
- Old Polish: strona
  - Polish: strona
- Slovak: strana
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: strona
  - Lower Sorbian: strona

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сторона́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
Derksen, Rick (2008), “*storna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 469