печора

Inherited from Old East Slavic печера (pečera, “cave”), from Proto-Slavic *peťera, from *peťь (“oven”) + *-era, from *peťi (“to bake”) + *-tь. Doublet of пеще́ра (peščéra), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.

• IPA^(key): [pʲɪˈt͡ɕɵrə]

печо́ра • (pečóra) f inan (genitive печо́ры, nominative plural печо́ры, genitive plural печо́р)

1. (dated or regional) cave

   Synonym: пеще́ра (peščéra)

• Печо́ра (Pečóra)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “печора”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “пещера”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 30
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902), “печера”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 927