Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jara

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 edit

Alternative reconstructions edit

*ěra (Derksen)

Noun edit

*jara f^[1]^[2]

Alternative form of *jaro (“spring”)

Declension edit

Declension of *jara (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*jara	*jarě	*jary
genitive	*jary	*jaru	*jarъ
dative	*jarě	*jarama	*jaramъ
accusative	*jarǫ	*jarě	*jary
instrumental	jarojǫ, jarǫ^**	*jarama	*jarami
locative	*jarě	*jaru	jarasъ, jaraxъ^*
vocative	*jaro	*jarě	*jary

^* -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).

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ꙗра (jara)
South Slavic:
- Church Slavonic: ꙗра (jara) (Russian recension)
- Bulgarian: яра́ (jará); йара (jara) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: јара (jara)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ја̏ра
  
  Latin script: jȁra

References edit

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*jaro / *jara / *jarъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 175
^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “jary I”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 204