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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sormъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śarmas, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer(H)- (“pain, harm”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm”), Persian شرم (“shame”). Probably further akin to Latvian sērmelis (“terror”).
Formally comparable with Lithuanian šarmá (“hoarfrost”), but uncertain if related.
Declension
Declension of *sȏrmъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *sȏrmъ | *sȏrma | *sȏrmi |
Accusative | *sȏrmъ | *sȏrma | *sȏrmy |
Genitive | *sȏrma | *sormù | *sõrmъ |
Locative | *sȏrmě | *sormù | *sormě̃xъ |
Dative | *sȏrmu | *sormomà | *sormòmъ |
Instrumental | *sȏrmъmь, *sȏrmomь* | *sormomà | *sormý |
Vocative | *sorme | *sȏrma | *sȏrmi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *sormiti (“to ashame”)
- *sormežь/*sorměžь (“ashamement”)
- *sormovati (“to cause shame”)
- *sormota (“disgrace”)
- *sormьje (“disgrace”)
- *sormьnъ (“shameful”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сором”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Todorov T., editor (2010), “срам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 408
- “šarma”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “sormъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c skændsel (PR 137; RPT 105)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “sram”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *sȏrmъ”
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