сиръ

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Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sirъ.

Adjective

сиръ (sirŭ) (not comparable)

  1. orphaned
  2. (figuratively) orphaned (abandoned, lonely)
  3. (figuratively) empty, deserted
    • 11th century, Retko, Codex Suprasliensis (in Old Cyrillic), page 335, line 22:
      беꙁ мѫжьства· и въ сирѣхъ словесехъ беꙁ оума ѥдинъ·
      bez mǫžĭstva· i vŭ sirěxŭ slovesexŭ bez uma jedinŭ·
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

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References

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sirъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsirʊ//ˈsʲirʊ//ˈsʲir/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈsirʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈsʲirʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈsʲir/

  • Hyphenation: си‧ръ

Adjective

сиръ (sirŭ) (not comparable)

  1. orphaned
  2. (figuratively) orphaned (abandoned, lonely)
  3. (figuratively) empty, deserted

Declension

Derived terms

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nouns
adjectives

Descendants

  • Russian: си́рый (síryj) (archaic)

References

Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “сирꙑи”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 360