Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/požarъ

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

From *po- +‎ *žarъ.

Noun

*požarъ m

1. fire (occurrence of fire in a certain place)

Inflection

Declension of *požarъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*požarъ	*požara	*požari
genitive	*požara	*požaru	*požarъ
dative	*požaru	*požaroma	*požaromъ
accusative	*požarъ	*požara	*požary
instrumental	*požarъmь, *požaromь*	*požaroma	*požary
locative	*požarě	*požaru	*požarěxъ
vocative	*požare	*požara	*požari

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: пажа́р (pažár)
  • Russian: пожа́р (požár)
  • Ukrainian: пожа́р (požár)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: пожаръ (požarŭ)

  • Bulgarian: пожа́р (požár)
  • Macedonian: пожар (požar)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̏жа̄р

    Latin script: pȍžār

  • Slovene: požȃr (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: požár
  • Polish: pożar
  • Slovak: požiar
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: рóžаr

• Non-Slavic
  • → Romanian: pojar

Further reading

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