Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buřa

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *baurjā. Cognates include Latvian baũr̨uôt, Latin furō, Old Norse byrr, Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati).

If Van Wijk's law holds, the ja-endings were lengthened to ā, except for for the endings for Gsg., Asg., and NApl., which were nasal vowels at the time of Van Wijk's law.[1]

Noun

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*bùřa or *bùřā f[2][1][3]

  1. storm

Declension

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Alternative forms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “буря”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎[1], volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 510
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bùŗa; bùra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 68:f. jā (a) ‘storm’
  3. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “burja”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[2], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a (PR 132; RPT 110)