Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫtro

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-Balto-Slavic *antra, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ón-tr-om, from *h₁én (“in, inside”).

A similar derivation, but with e-grade, led to *ę̄trò (“liver”).

Noun

*ǫtrò n

1. inside, core

Declension

Declension of *ǭtrò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ǭtrò	*ǫ̃trě	*ǭtrà
genitive	*ǭtrà	*ǭtrù	*ǫ̃trъ
dative	*ǭtrù	*ǭtròma	*ǭtròmъ
accusative	*ǭtrò	*ǫ̃trě	*ǭtrà
instrumental	*ǭtrъ̀mь, *ǭtròmь*	*ǭtròma	*ǫ̃try
locative	*ǭtrě̀	*ǭtrù	*ǫ̃trěxъ
vocative	*ǭtrò	*ǫ̃trě	*ǭtrà

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

Derived terms

• *ǫtroba
• *vъnǭtrò (*vъn- + *ǫtro)

Descendants

• East Slavic
  • Old East Slavic: нутрь (nutrĭ)
    • Belarusian: нутро́ (nutró)
    • Russian: нутро́ (nutró)
      • → Czech: nitro
    • Ukrainian: нутро́ (nutró)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: ѫтрьѫдѫ (ǫtrĭǫdǫ), ѫтрьѭдѫ (ǫtrĭjǫdǫ)

  • Bulgarian: вътре (vǎtre)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: у̀нӯтра

    Latin script: ùnūtra

  • Slovene: nọ̄ter (tonal orthography)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “нутро́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress