Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ortajь

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

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *arˀtāˀjas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plow”).

Noun

*ortajь m

1. ploughman
2. farmer

Declension

Declension of *ortajь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ortajь	*ortaja	*ortaji
genitive	*ortaja	*ortaju	*ortajь
dative	*ortaju	*ortajema	*ortajemъ
accusative	*ortajь	*ortaja	*ortaję̇
instrumental	*ortajьmь, *ortajemь*	*ortajema	*ortaji
locative	*ortaji	*ortaju	*ortajixъ
vocative	*ortaju	*ortaja	*ortaji

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ратаи (ratai)
    • Russian: ра́тай (rátaj)
    • Ukrainian: рата́й (ratáj)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: ратаи (ratai)

  • Bulgarian: ратай (rataj)
  • Macedonian: ратај (rataj) (archaic)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ра̏та̄р

    Latin script: rȁtār

  • Slovene: rátaj (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: rataj, ratej
  • Polish: rataj
  • Slovak: rataj
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: rataj
    • Lower Sorbian: rataj

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ра́тай”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress