Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nestera

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 earlier *nepttera, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nep(ō)t-:

Derksen: From Proto-Indo-European *h₂nep-t-ter-eh₂, from *h₂nep-t-.
ЭССЯ: From Proto-Indo-European *ne(p)-t-terā, from *neptī.
Vasmer: From Proto-Indo-European *nept-tera, from *neptī(s).

Baltic cognates include Old Lithuanian nepuotis (“grandson, granddaughter”), neptė (“granddaughter”).

Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit नप्ती (naptī, “daughter, granddaughter”), Ancient Greek ἀνεψιός (anepsiós, “cousin”), Latin neptis (“granddaughter”), Old Irish necht (“niece”), Proto-Germanic *niftiz.

Noun

*nestera f [1]

niece

Declension

Declension of *nestera (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*nestera	*nesterě	*nestery
Accusative	*nesterǫ	*nesterě	*nestery
Genitive	*nestery	*nesteru	*nesterъ
Locative	*nesterě	*nesteru	nesterasъ, nesteraxъ^*
Dative	*nesterě	*nesterama	*nesteramъ
Instrumental	nesterojǫ, nesterǫ^**	*nesterama	*nesterami
Vocative	*nestero	*nesterě	*nestery

^* -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.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

Church Slavonic: нестера (nestera) (Russian)
East Slavic: нестера (nestera)
- Russian: нестера (nestera), Нестор (Nestor), Нестер (Nester)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: нестера
  
  Latin: nestera
West Slavic:
- Old Polish: nieściora

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nestera”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 349: “f. ā ‘niece’”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nestera”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 349: “f. ā ‘niece’”