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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/otъverti

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

From *otъ- + *verti.

Verb

*otъvèrti [1]

  1. to open

Inflection

Alternative forms

  • *otverti
  • *obora (string, twine)
  • *obòra, *obòrъ (enclosure)
  • *otъvorìti (to open)
  • *proverti (to stick through)
  • *zaverti (to close, to enclose)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: отвере́ть (otverétʹ) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: ода̀вријети (Vuk's dictionary)
      Latin: odàvrijeti (Vuk's dictionary)
    • Slovene: odvrẹ́ti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: otevřieti
    • Old Polish: otewrzeć, odewrzeć
      • Polish: odewrzeć (dialectal), (otworzyć) (suppletive participles and past tense forms only)
    • Slovincian: vɵ̀tevřėc
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: wotewrić
      • Lower Sorbian: wótewrěś (archaic)

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ot(ъ)verti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 382: “v. ‘open’”
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