Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čara
Proto-Slavic
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷēr-eh₂, from *kʷer-. Cognate with Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos (“cauldron”), Proto-Germanic *hweraz (“kettle”), Sanskrit चरु (carú, “kettle, pot”).
Noun
*čara f
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *čara | *čarě | *čary |
| genitive | *čary | *čaru | *čarъ |
| dative | *čarě | *čarama | *čaramъ |
| accusative | *čarǫ | *čarě | *čary |
| instrumental | *čarojǫ, *čarǫ** | *čarama | *čarami |
| locative | *čarě | *čaru | *čarasъ, *čaraxъ* |
| vocative | *čaro | *čarě | *čary |
* -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).
Related terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čara I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 21
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ча́ра”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Etymology 2
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Noun
*čara f[1]
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *čara | *čarě | *čary |
| genitive | *čary | *čaru | *čarъ |
| dative | *čarě | *čarama | *čaramъ |
| accusative | *čarǫ | *čarě | *čary |
| instrumental | *čarojǫ, *čarǫ** | *čarama | *čarami |
| locative | *čarě | *čaru | *čarasъ, *čaraxъ* |
| vocative | *čaro | *čarě | *čary |
* -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: чара (čara)
- South Slavic:
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*čara”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 78: “f. ā ‘magic, sorcery’”