Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prostorъ

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

Alternative forms

• *perstorъ
• *prostora

Etymology

Deverbal from *prosterti, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-sterh₃-, from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-. Cognate with Sanskrit प्रस्तार (prastāra, “measure, permutation”).

Noun

*prostòrъ m

1. space, expanse

Inflection

Declension of *prostorъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*prostorъ	*prostora	*prostori
genitive	*prostora	*prostoru	*prostorъ
dative	*prostoru	*prostoroma	*prostoromъ
accusative	*prostorъ	*prostora	*prostory
instrumental	*prostorъmь, *prostoromь*	*prostoroma	*prostory
locative	*prostorě	*prostoru	*prostorěxъ
vocative	*prostore	*prostora	*prostori

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

Derived terms

• *prostorьnъ (“vast”)

Related terms

• *prosterti (“space, expanse”)
• *stornà (“side, land”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: прасто́ра (prastóra)
    • Russian: просто́р (prostór)
    • Ukrainian: про́стір (próstir)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: просторъ (prostorŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⱃⱁⱄⱅⱁⱃⱛ (prostorü)

  • Bulgarian: просто́р (prostór)
  • Macedonian: простор (prostor)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: про́стор

    Latin: próstor

  • Slovene: próstor (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: prostor
  • Polabian: prăstöră
  • Old Polish: przestór
    • Polish: przestwór
  • Slovak: priestor
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: přesćera
    • Lower Sorbian: pśestwor

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “простор”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “простор”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 773