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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žerava
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Substantivized form of the adjective *žeravъ (“scorching, burning”) + *-a. Some descendants have epenthetic -j-, probably by analogy with Proto-Slavic *žařavъ, *žařavica (“scorching heat, hearth”), from Proto-Slavic *žařati (“to burn down”).
Noun
*žera̋va f
- live coal
- hearth
Declension
Declension of *žerava (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *žerava | *žeravě | *žeravy |
Accusative | *žeravǫ | *žeravě | *žeravy |
Genitive | *žeravy | *žeravu | *žeravъ |
Locative | *žeravě | *žeravu | *žeravasъ, *žeravaxъ* |
Dative | *žeravě | *žeravama | *žeravamъ |
Instrumental | *žeravojǫ, *žeravǫ** | *žeravama | *žeravami |
Vocative | *žeravo | *žeravě | *žeravy |
* -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).
Related terms
- *žarъ (“glow, heat”)
- *žarъkъ (“hot, scorching”)
Derived terms
- *žeravica (diminutive)
- *žeravъka (diminutive)
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: жера́ва (žeráva), жара́ва (žaráva)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: жѐрава, же̏равица
- Latin: žèrava, žerȁva, žȅravica
- Slovene: žerjȃvica, žerjȃvka (“heartburn”)
Further reading
- Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1971), “жерава”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 536
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “žerjȃvica”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, →ISBN: “Pslovan. *žera̋vъ”