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      Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/aščerica
Proto-Slavic
    
    
Alternative forms
    
- *aščelica
Inflection
    
Declension of *aščerica (soft a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *aščerica | *aščerici | *aščericę̇ | 
| genitive | *aščericę̇ | *aščericu | *aščericь | 
| dative | *aščerici | *aščericama | *aščericamъ | 
| accusative | *aščericǫ | *aščerici | *aščericę̇ | 
| instrumental | *aščericejǫ, *aščericǫ** | *aščericama | *aščericami | 
| locative | *aščerici | *aščericu | *aščericasъ, *aščericaxъ* | 
| vocative | *aščerice | *aščerici | *aščericę̇ | 
* -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).
** 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).
Related terms
    
Descendants
    
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ꙗщерица (jaščerica)
- Russian: я́щерица (jáščerica)
- Ukrainian: ящури́ця (jaščurýcja)
 
 
- Old East Slavic: ꙗщерица (jaščerica)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: аштерица (ašterica)
- Serbo-Croatian: (rare)
- Cyrillic script: jа̏штерица
- Latin script: jȁšterica
- Chakavian (Vrgada): jȁšćerica
 
- Slovene: jȃščerica (tonal orthography) (rare)
 
- West Slavic:
- Czech: ještěřice
- Kashubian: wieszczerzëca
- Polabian: vistăraićă
- Old Polish: jeszczerzyca
- Slovak: jašterica
- Slovincian: jeszczêrëca
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: jašćeŕca
- Upper Sorbian: ješćelca
 
 
Further reading
    
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*аščerica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 87
References
    
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*aščerъ; *aščerica”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 30: “m. o; f. jā ‘lizard’”
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