Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kara
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editRelated to *karati, *korìti. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
edit*kara f[1]
Declension
editDeclension of *kara (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *kara | *karě | *kary |
genitive | *kary | *karu | *karъ |
dative | *karě | *karama | *karamъ |
accusative | *karǫ | *karě | *kary |
instrumental | *karojǫ, *karǫ** | *karama | *karami |
locative | *karě | *karu | *karasъ, *karaxъ* |
vocative | *karo | *karě | *kary |
* -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).
** 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).
Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
edit- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ка́ра”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
edit- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kara”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 220: “f. ā ‘punishment’”