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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zořa
Proto-Slavic
Alternative forms
- *zařà, *zorà
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerh₁-. Akin to Lithuanian žarijà, žėrė́ti and Old Prussian sari.
Noun
*zořà f
- aurora, dawn, daybreak
Inflection
Declension of *zořa (soft a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *zořa | *zoři | *zořę̇ |
Accusative | *zořǫ | *zoři | *zořę̇ |
Genitive | *zořę̇ | *zořu | *zořь |
Locative | *zoři | *zořu | *zořasъ, *zořaxъ* |
Dative | *zoři | *zořama | *zořamъ |
Instrumental | *zořejǫ, *zořǫ** | *zořama | *zořami |
Vocative | *zoře | *zoři | *zořę̇ |
* -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).
Derived terms
noun
- *zorьnica
verb
- *zazoriti
Related terms
nouns
- *zorkъ
- *zorъ
verb
- *zьrěti
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: заря́ (zarjá), зоря́ (zorjá)
- Ukrainian: за́ря (zárja), зоря́ (zorjá)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: зарѩ (zarję), зорѩ (zorję)
- Bulgarian: заря́ (zarjá), зора́ (zorá)
- Macedonian: зора (zora)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: зо̀ра
- Latin: zòra
- Slovene: zárja, zóra (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: zora, záře
- Old Polish: zarza, zorza
- Polish: zorza
- Slovak: zora, žiara
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: zoŕa
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “заря́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress