Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/beračь

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

By surface analysis, *bьrati +‎ *-ačь.

Noun

*beračь m^[1]

picker

Declension

Declension of *beračь (soft o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*beračь	*berača	*berači
genitive	*berača	*beraču	*beračь
dative	*beraču	*beračema	*beračemъ
accusative	*beračь	*berača	*beračę̇
instrumental	beračьmь, beračemь^*	*beračema	*berači
locative	*berači	*beraču	*beračixъ
vocative	*beraču	*berača	*berači

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: бера́ч (beráč)
- Macedonian: берач (berač)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: бѐра̄ч
  
  Latin script: bèrāč
- Slovene: beráč (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Polish: bieracz (obsolete)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*beračь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 187

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*beračь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 187

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