Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jara

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 reconstructions

Noun

*jara f[1][2]

  1. alternative form of *jaro (“spring”)

Declension

Declension of *jara (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *jara *jarě *jary
genitive *jary *jaru *jarъ
dative *jarě *jarama *jaramъ
accusative *jarǫ *jarě *jary
instrumental *jarojǫ, *jarǫ** *jarama *jarami
locative *jarě *jaru *jarasъ, *jaraxъ*
vocative *jaro *jarě *jary

* -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).

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: ꙗра (jara)
  • South Slavic:
    • Church Slavonic: ꙗра (jara) (Russian recension)
    • Bulgarian: яра́ (jará); йара (jara) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: јара (jara)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ја̏ра
      Latin script: jȁra

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*jaro / *jara / *jarъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 175
  2. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “jary I”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 204

Further reading

  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ěro *ěra *ěrъ I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 151
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