Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mačerъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *maca (“cat, pussy”) +‎ *-erъ (“male suffix”). Compare *gǫserъ < *gǫsь.

Noun

*mačerъ m

a male cat; tomcat

Inflection

Declension of *mačerъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*mačerъ	*mačera	*mačeri
Accusative	*mačerъ	*mačera	*mačery
Genitive	*mačera	*mačeru	*mačerъ
Locative	*mačerě	*mačeru	*mačerěxъ
Dative	*mačeru	*mačeroma	*mačeromъ
Instrumental	mačerъmь, mačeromь^*	*mačeroma	*mačery
Vocative	*mačere	*mačera	*mačeri

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

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ма́чор (máčor)
- Macedonian: ма́чор (máčor)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: мачор, мачур
  
  Latin: mačor, mačur
East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: ма́цу́р (mácúr)

References

Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1990), “*mačerъ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 17, Moscow: Nauka, page 116

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