Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nozdra

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

Alternative forms

• *nozdry

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *nasrāˀ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

Noun

*nozdra f

1. nostril

Inflection

Declension of *nozdra (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*nozdra	*nozdrě	*nozdry
genitive	*nozdry	*nozdru	*nozdrъ
dative	*nozdrě	*nozdrama	*nozdramъ
accusative	*nozdrǫ	*nozdrě	*nozdry
instrumental	*nozdrojǫ, *nozdrǫ**	*nozdrama	*nozdrami
locative	*nozdrě	*nozdru	*nozdrasъ, *nozdraxъ*
vocative	*nozdro	*nozdrě	*nozdry

^* -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

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: наздра́ (nazdrá)
  • Russian: ноздря́ (nozdrjá)
  • Ukrainian: ні́здря (nízdrja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ноздри (nozdri) (plurale tantum)
  • Bulgarian: но́здра (nózdra), но́здря (nózdrja)
  • Macedonian: но́здра (nózdra)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: но̏здрва

    Latin script: nȍzdrva

  • Slovene: nọ̑zdra (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: nozdra
  • Old Polish: nozdrza
    • Polish: nozdrze
  • Slovak: nozdra

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ноздря”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nozdra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 357