Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dura

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

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Noun

*dura f^[1]

hole
Synonym: *dupa, *ama

Declension

Declension of *dura (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dura	*durě	*dury
genitive	*dury	*duru	*durъ
dative	*durě	*durama	*duramъ
accusative	*durǫ	*durě	*dury
instrumental	durojǫ, durǫ^**	*durama	*durami
locative	*durě	*duru	durasъ, duraxъ^*
vocative	*duro	*durě	*dury

^* -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

West Slavic:
- Czech: ďoura, ďúra, džura
- Polish: dziura, dura (dialectal)
  - → Old Ruthenian: дзюра (dzjura)
    - Belarusian: (dialectal) дзюра́ (dzjurá)
    - Ukrainian: (dialectal) дюра́ (djurá)
- Slovincian: dzúra

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dura”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 126: “f. ā ‘hole’”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dura”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 126: “f. ā ‘hole’”

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