печера

From Proto-Slavic *peťera, from *peťь (“oven”) + *-era, from *peťi (“to bake”) + *-tь.

печера (pečera) f

1. cave

• Belarusian: пячо́ра (pjačóra)
• → Polish: pieczara
• Russian: печо́ра (pečóra)
• Ukrainian: пече́ра (pečéra)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “печера”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 927

From Old East Slavic печера (pečera, “cave”), from Proto-Slavic *peťera, from *peťь (“oven”) + *-era, from *peťi (“to bake”) + *-tь.

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пече́ра • (pečéra) f inan (genitive пече́ри, nominative plural пече́ри, genitive plural пече́р, relational adjective пече́рний)

1. cave, cavern

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “печера”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka