Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ortь
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”)[1] + *-tь. Compare Latvian errueties (“get angry”).
Other Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek ἔρις (éris, “quarrel”), ἐρίζω (erízō, “to challenge, to dispute”) and Sanskrit ऋति (ṛti, “attack”).
Noun
[edit]*ortь f[1]
Declension
[edit]Declension of *ȏrtь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *ȏrtь | *ȏrti | *ȏrti |
genitive | *ortí | *ortьjù, *orťu* | *ortь̀jь |
dative | *ȏrti | *ortьmà | *ȏrtьmъ |
accusative | *ȏrtь | *ȏrti | *ȏrti |
instrumental | *ortьjǫ́ | *ortьmà | *ortьmì |
locative | *ortí | *ortьjù, *orťu* | *ȏrtьxъ |
vocative | *orti | *ȏrti | *ȏrti |
* 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).
Derived terms
[edit]- *ortiti (“to battle”)
- *ortišče (“spear, skewer”)
- *ortovati (“to fight, to stand for”)
- *ortьnъ (“combatant”)
- *ortьnikъ (“warrior”)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: rať
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*ortь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 214
- Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “рат”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 189
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “Proto-Slavic/ortь”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ortь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 376: “f. i ‘war, battle’”