Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buřa

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

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *baurjā. Cognates include Latvian baũr̨uôt, Latin furō, Old Norse byrr, Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati).

If Van Wijk's law holds, the ja-endings were lengthened to ā, except for for the endings for Gsg., Asg., and NApl., which were nasal vowels at the time of Van Wijk's law.[1]

Noun edit

*bùřa or *bùřā f[2][1][3]

  1. storm

Declension edit

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Descendants edit

Further reading edit

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

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎[1], volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 510
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bùŗa; bùra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 68:f. jā (a) ‘storm’
  3. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “burja”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[2], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a (PR 132; RPT 110)