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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫtro
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *antra, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ón-tr-om, from *h₁én (“in, inside”).
A similar derivation, but with e-grade, led to *ę̄trò (“liver”).
Noun
*ǫtrò n[1]
- inside, core
Declension
Declension of *ǭtrò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *ǭtrò | *ǫ̃trě | *ǭtrà |
| Accusative | *ǭtrò | *ǫ̃trě | *ǭtrà |
| Genitive | *ǭtrà | *ǭtrù | *ǫ̃trъ |
| Locative | *ǭtrě̀ | *ǭtrù | *ǫ̃trěxъ |
| Dative | *ǭtrù | *ǭtròma | *ǭtròmъ |
| Instrumental | *ǭtrъ̀mь, *ǭtròmь* | *ǭtròma | *ǫ̃try |
| Vocative | *ǭtrò | *ǫ̃trě | *ǭtrà |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *ǫtroba
- *vъnǭtrò (*vъn- + *ǫtro)
Descendants
- East Slavic
- Old East Slavic: нутрь (nutrĭ)
- Belarusian: нутро́ (nutró)
- Russian: нутро́ (nutró)
- → Czech: nitro
- Ukrainian: нутро́ (nutró)
- Old East Slavic: нутрь (nutrĭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: ѫтрьѫдѫ (ǫtrĭǫdǫ)
- Serbo-Croatian: unutra
- Slovene: noter
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “нутро́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ǫtrò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 387: “n. o (b) ‘inside, coe’”