Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/aščerica

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

*aščerъ +‎ *-ica

Noun

*aščerica f

1. feminine of *aščerъ (“lizard, salamander”)

Alternative forms

• *aščelica

Inflection

Declension of *aščerica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*aščerica	*aščerici	*aščericę̇
genitive	*aščericę̇	*aščericu	*aščericь
dative	*aščerici	*aščericama	*aščericamъ
accusative	*aščericǫ	*aščerici	*aščericę̇
instrumental	*aščericejǫ, *aščericǫ**	*aščericama	*aščericami
locative	*aščerici	*aščericu	*aščericasъ, *aščericaxъ*
vocative	*aščerice	*aščerici	*aščericę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

• *aščerъka

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ꙗщерица (jaščerica)
    • Russian: я́щерица (jáščerica)
    • Ukrainian: ящури́ця (jaščurýcja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: аштерица (ašterica)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (rare)

    Cyrillic script: jа̏штерица

    Latin script: jȁšterica

    Chakavian (Vrgada): jȁšćerica

  • Slovene: jȃščerica (tonal orthography) (rare)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ještěřice
  • Kashubian: wieszczerzëca
  • Polabian: vistăraićă
  • Old Polish: jeszczerzyca
  • Slovak: jašterica
  • Slovincian: jeszczêrëca
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: jašćeŕca
    • Upper Sorbian: ješćelca

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*аščerica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 87