Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/turъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/turъ

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

†Bos primigenius

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *taurás, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

Cognate with Lithuanian taũras (“aurochs”), Latvian tàurs (“aurochs”), Latvian tàuriņš (“aurochs → butterfly”); Old Prussian tauris (“wisent”).

Noun

*tȗrъ m[1]

1. aurochs

Declension

Declension of *tȗrъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*tȗrъ	*tȗra	*tȗri
Accusative	*tȗrъ	*tȗra	*tȗry
Genitive	*tȗra	*turù	*tũrъ
Locative	*tȗrě	*turù	*turě̃xъ
Dative	*tȗru	*turomà	*turòmъ
Instrumental	*tȗrъmь, *tȗromь*	*turomà	*turý
Vocative	*ture	*tȗra	*tȗri

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: туръ (turŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: туръ (tur)
    • Russian: тур (tur)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: тоуръ (turŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱅⱆⱃⱏ (turŭ)

  • Bulgarian: тур (tur)
  • Macedonian: тур (tur)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ту̑р

    Latin: tȗr

  • Slovene: túr
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: tur
    • Czech: tur
  • Kashubian: tur (only as part of set expressions)
  • Polabian: täur
  • Old Polish: tur
    • Polish: tur
  • Slovak: tur
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: tur
    • Upper Sorbian: tur

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “тур”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*tȗrъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 500: “m. o (c) ‘aurochs’”