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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nyřati

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

  • *nirati
  • *nyrati

Etymology

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian nérti (to dive), also nãras (hole, lair), narà (hole, lair) (both dialectal).

Verb

*nyřati impf

  1. to immerse oneself? to dive?

Inflection

Descendants

  • Church Slavonic: нꙑрати (nyrati, to immerse oneself), 1sg. нꙑрѭ (nyrjǫ), нꙑраѭ (nyrajǫ); нꙑрꙗти (nyrjati, to immerse oneself), 1sg. нꙑрꙗѭ (nyrjajǫ)
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: ныра́ць (nyrácʹ)
    • Middle Russian: нырꙗти (nyrjati) (14th century)
    • Ukrainian: ниря́ти (nyrjáty, to dive)

References

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ныря́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 581
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nyŗati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 360
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ныря́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nyr(’)ati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 65
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