Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bara

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

*bara f

1. puddle, pond

Declension

Declension of *bara (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bara	*barě	*bary
genitive	*bary	*baru	*barъ
dative	*barě	*barama	*baramъ
accusative	*barǫ	*barě	*bary
instrumental	*barojǫ, *barǫ**	*barama	*barami
locative	*barě	*baru	*barasъ, *baraxъ*
vocative	*baro	*barě	*bary

^* -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

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ба́ра (bára)
  • Macedonian: бара (bara)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ба̏ра

    Latin script: bȁra

  • Slovene: bára
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bara (dialectal)
  • Slovak: bara (dialectal)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*bara”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 153
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бара”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress