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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nestera
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This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 earlier *nepttera, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nep(ō)t-:
- Derksen: From Proto-Indo-European *h₂nep-t-ter-eh₂, from *h₂nep-t-.
- ЭССЯ: From Proto-Indo-European *ne(p)-t-terā, from *neptī.
- Vasmer: From Proto-Indo-European *nept-tera, from *neptī(s).
Baltic cognates include Old Lithuanian nepuotis (“grandson, granddaughter”), neptė (“granddaughter”).
Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit नप्ती (naptī, “daughter, granddaughter”), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós, “cousin”), Latin neptis (“granddaughter”), Old Irish necht (“niece”), Proto-Germanic *niftiz.
Declension
Declension of *nestera (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *nestera | *nesterě | *nestery |
| Accusative | *nesterǫ | *nesterě | *nestery |
| Genitive | *nestery | *nesteru | *nesterъ |
| Locative | *nesterě | *nesteru | *nesterasъ, *nesteraxъ* |
| Dative | *nesterě | *nesterama | *nesteramъ |
| Instrumental | *nesterojǫ, *nesterǫ** | *nesterama | *nesterami |
| Vocative | *nestero | *nesterě | *nestery |
* -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).
** 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
- Church Slavonic: нестера (nestera) (Russian)
- East Slavic: нестера (nestera)
- Russian: нестера (nestera), Нестор (Nestor), Нестер (Nester)
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: нестера
- Latin: nestera
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
- Old Polish: nieściora
Further reading
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “нестера”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
- Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nestera”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 25, Moscow: Nauka, page 19
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nestera”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 349: “f. ā ‘niece’”
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