Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/storna

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 Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch”) + *-nъ +‎ *-a.^[1]

Noun

*stornà f^[1]

side; land

Inflection

Declension of *stornà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*stornà	*stȏrně	*stȏrny
genitive	*storný	*stornù	*stõrnъ
dative	*storně̀	*stornàma	*stornàmъ
accusative	*stȏrnǫ	*stȏrně	*stȏrny
instrumental	*stornojǫ́	*stornàma	*stornàmi
locative	*stȏrně	*stornù	stornàsъ, stornàxъ^*
vocative	*storno	*stȏrně	*stȏrny

^* -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.

Related terms

*storniti (“to shun, to make way”)
*prostorъ (“expanse”)
*prostornьstvo (“space, scope”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: старана́ (staraná)
- Russian: сторона́ (storoná)
- Ukrainian: сторона́ (storoná)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Cyrillic: страна (strana)
  - Glagolitic: ⱄⱅⱃⰰⱀⰰ (strana)
    - → Old East Slavic: страна (strana)
      - Russian: страна́ (straná)
- Bulgarian: страна́ (straná)
- Macedonian: страна (strana)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: стра́на
  
  Latin script: strána
- Slovene: strán
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: strana
  - Czech: strana
- Old Polish: strona
  - Polish: strona
  - Silesian: strōna
- Old Slovak: strana
  - Pannonian Rusyn: страна (strana)
  - Slovak: strana
- Polabian: stornă
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: strona, starna (archaising neologism)
  - Slovincian: strôna
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: strona
  - Lower Sorbian: strona

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008), “*storna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 469