Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žirъ
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
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Possibly, related to *žiti (“to live”)
Noun edit
*žirъ m
Declension edit
Declension of *žirъ (hard o-stem)
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жир”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress