Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grotъ
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-. Akin to German Grat (“ridge, edge”), Gräte (“fishbone”) and Old High German grāt.
Noun edit
*grotъ m
Inflection edit
Declension of *grotъ (hard o-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *grotъ | *grota | *groti |
genitive | *grota | *grotu | *grotъ |
dative | *grotu | *grotoma | *grotomъ |
accusative | *grotъ | *grota | *groty |
instrumental | *grotъmь, *grotomь* | *grotoma | *groty |
locative | *grotě | *grotu | *grotěxъ |
vocative | *grote | *grota | *groti |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms edit
adjective
noun
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- Russian: грот (grot) (obsolete)
- West Slavic:
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “грот”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*grotъ I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 140