печера

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *peťera, from *peťь (“oven”) + *-era, from *peťi (“to bake”) + *-tь.

Noun

печера (pečera) f

1. cave

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Belarusian: пячо́ра (pjačóra)
• Russian: печо́ра (pečóra)
• Ukrainian: пече́ра (pečéra)

References

vol=2 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893–1912) “печера”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences

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Ukrainian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old East Slavic печера (pečera, “cave”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *peťera, from *peťь (“oven”) + *-era, from *peťi (“to bake”) + *-tь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈt͡ʃɛrɑ/

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Noun

пече́ра • (pečéra) f inan (genitive пече́ри, nominative plural пече́ри)

1. cave, cavern

References

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “печера”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka