Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ętro
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *entrá, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁entrom.
Baltic cognates include Old Prussian instran (“fat”).
Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit आन्त्र n (āntrá, “intestine”), Ancient Greek ἔντερα n (éntera, “entrails”, pl.).
Noun
*ę̄trò n
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *ę̄trò | *ę̃trě | *ę̄trà |
| genitive | *ę̄trà | *ę̄trù | *ę̃trъ |
| dative | *ę̄trù | *ę̄tròma | *ę̄tròmъ |
| accusative | *ę̄trò | *ę̃trě | *ę̄trà |
| instrumental | *ę̄trъ̀mь, *ę̄tròmь* | *ę̄tròma | *ę̃try |
| locative | *ę̄trě̀ | *ę̄trù | *ę̃trěxъ |
| vocative | *ę̄trò | *ę̃trě | *ę̄trà |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
Descendants
- Old Church Slavonic: ꙗтро (jatro), ѩтро (jętro) (Russian)
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ꙗтро (jatro, “liver, (pl.) entrails”)
- Russian: я́тро (játro), ятро́ (jatró, “entrails, eggs”), pl. я́тра (játra)
- Old East Slavic: ꙗтро (jatro, “liver, (pl.) entrails”)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ę̄trò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 158
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ятра”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ętro”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 72