Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sirota

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

From *sirъ +‎ *-ota.

Noun

*sirota f

1. orphan

Declension

Declension of *sirota (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sirota	*sirotě	*siroty
genitive	*siroty	*sirotu	*sirotъ
dative	*sirotě	*sirotama	*sirotamъ
accusative	*sirotǫ	*sirotě	*siroty
instrumental	*sirotojǫ, *sirotǫ**	*sirotama	*sirotami
locative	*sirotě	*sirotu	*sirotasъ, *sirotaxъ*
vocative	*siroto	*sirotě	*siroty

^* -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:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: сірота́ (sirotá)
    • Russian: сирота́ (sirotá)
    • Ukrainian: сирота́ (syrotá)

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: сирота́ (sirotá)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сиро̀та

    Latin script: siròta

  • Slovene: sirota

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: sirota
  • Old Polish: sirota
    • Polish: sierota
  • Slovak: sirota
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: syrota
    • Upper Sorbian: syrota

Further reading

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