Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-urъ

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

*-yrъ

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Probably irregularly from the poorly attested earlier form *-yrъ (compare *-unъ / *-ynъ).

Suffix

*-urъ m^[1]^[2]

Forms nouns from nouns
‎*kȍstь (“bone”) + ‎*-urъ → ‎*kosturъ (“walking stick; skeleton”)

‎*mě̑xъ (“leather bag”) + ‎*-urъ → ‎*měxurъ (“blister”)
Forms nouns from verbs
‎*baxati (“to swell, to tumefy”) + ‎*-urъ → ‎*baxurъ (“belly; stomach of ruminant”)

Declension

Declension of *-urъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*-urъ	*-ura	*-uri
genitive	*-ura	*-uru	*-urъ
dative	*-uru	*-uroma	*-uromъ
accusative	*-urъ	*-ura	*-ury
instrumental	-urъmь, -uromь^*	*-uroma	*-ury
locative	*-urě	*-uru	*-urěxъ
vocative	*-ure	*-ura	*-uri

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

Proto-Slavic terms suffixed with *-urъ

Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kosturъ

Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lopurъ

affixes

*-ura

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: -уръ (-urŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: -уръ (-ur)
    - Belarusian: -ур (-ur)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: -ур (-ur)
    - Ukrainian: -ур (-ur)
  - Russian: -ур (-ur)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: -оуръ (-urŭ)
  - Bulgarian: -ур (-ur)
  - Macedonian: -ур (-ur)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: -ур
  
  Latin script: -ur
- Slovene: -ur (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: -úr
  - Czech: -úr
- Old Polish: -ur
  - Polish: -ur
  - Silesian: -ur
- Old Slovak: -úr
  - Slovak: -úr

References

^ Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1976), “Suf. -urъ”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 2 (caca – davьnota), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 26
^ Matasović, Ranko (2014), “2.11.48 *-ur < *-awra-, *-ura < *-awrā-”, in Slavic Nominal Word-formation: Proto-Indo-European Origins and Historical Development (Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft; 3), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 161

[1] Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1976), “Suf. -urъ”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 2 (caca – davьnota), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 26

[2] Matasović, Ranko (2014), “2.11.48 *-ur < *-awra-, *-ura < *-awrā-”, in Slavic Nominal Word-formation: Proto-Indo-European Origins and Historical Development (Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft; 3), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 161

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