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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sěverъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *śḗˀwer-/*śjáˀur-, from Proto-Indo-European ḱeh₁wer-o-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian šiaurỹs (“north wind”), Lithuanian šiáurė (“north”). Indo-European cognates include Latin caurus (“northwestern wind”) < *ḱh₁wer-o-.

Noun

*sě̀verъ m [1]

  1. north

Inflection
Declension of *sěverъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *sěverъ *sěvera *sěveri
Accusative *sěverъ *sěvera *sěvery
Genitive *sěvera *sěveru *sěverъ
Locative *sěverě *sěveru *sěverě̄xъ
Dative *sěveru *sěveroma *sěveromъ
Instrumental *sěverъmь, *sěveromь* *sěveroma *sěverȳ
Vocative *sěvere *sěvera *sěveri
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: sěver
    • Old Polish: siewior
    • Slovak: sever
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: sowjer (“high-altitude haze”) (sewjer (“north”) is a 19th-century borrowing from Czech[2])

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sě̀verъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 448
  2. Derksen (2008), p.449.
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