Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bratrьja
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂tr̥yeh₂-.
Noun
*bràtrьja or *bràtьja f[1]
- (collective) brothers
Declension
Declension of *bràtrьja (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a, uncountable)
singular | |
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nominative | *bràtrьja |
genitive | *bràtrьję̇ |
dative | *bràtrьjī |
accusative | *bràtrьjǫ |
instrumental | *bràtrьjējǫ, *bràtrьjǭ* |
locative | *bràtrьjī |
vocative | *bràtrьje |
* 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:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bratrьja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 03 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 6
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bratьja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 03 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 8
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bràtrьja; *bràtьja”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 60: “f. jā (a) ‘brothers (coll.)’”