Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žara

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

Etymology

From *žarъ +‎ *-a.

Noun

*žara f^[1]

heat, hot weather

Declension

Declension of *žara (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*žara	*žarě	*žary
genitive	*žary	*žaru	*žarъ
dative	*žarě	*žarama	*žaramъ
accusative	*žarǫ	*žarě	*žary
instrumental	žarojǫ, žarǫ^**	*žarama	*žarami
locative	*žarě	*žaru	žarasъ, žaraxъ^*
vocative	*žaro	*žarě	*žary

^* -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: *жара (*žara)
  - Old Ruthenian: *жара (*žara)
    - Belarusian: жара́ (žará)
    - Ukrainian: жара́ (žará)
  - Russian: жара́ (žará)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: жа́ра
  
  Latin script: žára
- Slovene: žara (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Slovak: žiara

References

^ Anikin, A. E. (2022) “жара́”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 16 (ерепениться – житьё), Moscow: Russian Language Institute, →ISBN, page 143: “*žara”

[Anikin-1] Anikin, A. E. (2022) “жара́”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 16 (ерепениться – житьё), Moscow: Russian Language Institute, →ISBN, page 143: “*žara”

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