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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.
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *zvěrь (“beast”) + *-ę.
Noun
*zvě̄rę̀ n[1][2]
- baby animal
Declension
Declension of *zvěrę (nt-stem, accent paradigm b)
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singular
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dual
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plural
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| nominative
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*zvěrę
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*zvěrę̀ti
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*zvěrę̀tā
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| genitive
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*zvěrę̀te
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*zvěrę̀tu
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*zvěrę̀tъ
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| dative
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*zvěrę̀ti
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*zvěrę̀tьma
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*zvěrę̀tьmъ
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| accusative
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*zvěrę
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*zvěrę̀ti
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*zvěrę̀tā
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| instrumental
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*zvěrę̀tьmь
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*zvěrę̀tьma
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*zvěrę̀tȳ
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| locative
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*zvěrę̀te
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*zvěrę̀tu
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*zvěrę̀tьxъ
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| vocative
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*zvěrę
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*zvěrę̀ti
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*zvěrę̀tā
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Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *звѣрѧ (*zvěrę)
- South Slavic:
- >? Macedonian: ѕвере (dzvere)
- >? Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: звије̑ре
- Latin: zvijȇre
- West Slavic:
References
- ^ Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)[1], volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 553
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zvě̑rь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 549-550: “m. i (c) ‘wild animal’”