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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic печера (pečera, “cave”), from Proto-Slavic *peťera, from *peťь (“oven”) + *-era, from *peťi (“to bake”) + *-tь. Doublet of пеще́ра (peščéra), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.
Pronunciation
Noun
печо́ра • (pečóra) f inan (genitive печо́ры, nominative plural печо́ры, genitive plural печо́р)
- (dated or regional) cave
- Synonym: пеще́ра (peščéra)
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References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “печора”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пещера”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 30
- 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