Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nozdra

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

*nozdřa

Etymology

From *nȍzdьřa,^[1] hypothetically from a Pre-slavic form such as *nasdirjā, apparently from *nȍsъ (“nose”) + *dьràti (“to tear, to flay; to cut into pieces”)^[2].

Noun

*nozdrà f^[1]^[3]

nostril

Inflection

Declension of *nozdrà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*nozdrà	*nȍzdrě	*nȍzdry
genitive	*nozdrý	*nozdrù	*nòzdrъ
dative	*nozdrě̀	*nozdràma	*nozdràmъ
accusative	*nȍzdrǫ	*nȍzdrě	*nȍzdry
instrumental	*nozdrojǫ́	*nozdràma	*nozdràmi
locative	*nȍzdrě	*nozdrù	nozdràsъ, nozdràxъ^*
vocative	*nozdro	*nȍzdrě	*nȍzdry

^* -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.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ноздрꙗ (nozdrja)
  - Old Ruthenian: ноздрꙗ (nozdrja), ноздра (nozdra)
    - Belarusian: наздра́ (nazdrá)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: ну́здря (núzdrja)
    - Ukrainian: ні́здря (nízdrja)
  - Russian: ноздря́ (nozdrjá)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: ноздри (nozdri) (plurale tantum)
- Bulgarian: но́здра (nózdra), но́здря (nózdrja)
- Macedonian: но́здра (nózdra)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: но̏здрва
  
  Latin script: nȍzdrva
- Slovene: nọ̑zdra (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: nozdra
- Old Polish: nozdrza
  - Polish: nozdrze
- Slovak: nozdra

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2014) “Drevnerusskoje udarenije. Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ”, in Languages of Slavic Culture‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “ноздрь, ноздря ― nozdrʹ, nozdrja”
^ Nikolajev, S. L. (2014) “K rekonstrukcii akcentnyx klassov balto-slavjanskix glagolov*”, in Balto-slavjanskije issledovanija – XIX, Moscow – Saint-Petersburg: The work was carried out with the support of the basic research Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nozdŗa, *nozdra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 357

[Zaliznyak:2014-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2014) “Drevnerusskoje udarenije. Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ”, in Languages of Slavic Culture‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “ноздрь, ноздря ― nozdrʹ, nozdrja”

[2] Nikolajev, S. L. (2014) “K rekonstrukcii akcentnyx klassov balto-slavjanskix glagolov*”, in Balto-slavjanskije issledovanija – XIX, Moscow – Saint-Petersburg: The work was carried out with the support of the basic research Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences

[3] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nozdŗa, *nozdra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 357

[1]

[2]

[3]