Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/storna

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-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch”) + *-nъ +‎ *-a.

Noun

*stornà f

1. side; land

Inflection

Declension of *stornà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*stornà	*stȏrně	*stȏrny
genitive	*storný	*stornù	*stõrnъ
dative	*storně̀	*stornàma	*stornàmъ
accusative	*stȏrnǫ	*stȏrně	*stȏrny
instrumental	*stornojǫ́	*stornàma	*stornàmi
locative	*stȏrně	*stornù	*stornàsъ, *stornàxъ*
vocative	*storno	*stȏrně	*stȏrny

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.

Related terms

• *storniti (“to shun, to make way”)
• *prostorъ (“expanse”)
• *prostornьstvo (“space, scope”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: старана́ (staraná)
  • Russian: сторона́ (storoná)
  • Ukrainian: сторона́ (storoná)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Cyrillic: страна (strana)
    • Glagolitic: ⱄⱅⱃⰰⱀⰰ (strana)
      • → Old East Slavic: страна (strana)
        • Russian: страна́ (straná)
  • Bulgarian: страна́ (straná)
  • Macedonian: страна (strana)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: стра́на

    Latin script: strána

  • Slovene: strán
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: strana
    • Czech: strana
  • Old Polish: strona
    • Polish: strona
    • Silesian: strōna
  • Slovak: strana
  • Polabian: stornă
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: strona
    • Slovincian: strôna
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: strona
    • Lower Sorbian: strona

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сторона́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*storna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 469