Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žirъ
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
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Possibly, related to *žiti (“to live”)
Noun
edit*žirъ m
Declension
editDeclension of *žirъ (hard o-stem)
Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: zsír
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