< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/větrъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ueʔtr-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-.
Cognate with Lithuanian vė́tra (“storm”), Latvian vētra (“storm”), Old Prussian wetro (“wind”).
Inflection
Declension of *vě̀trъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *vě̀trъ | *vě̀tra | *vě̀tri |
Accusative | *vě̀trъ | *vě̀tra | *vě̀try |
Genitive | *vě̀tra | *vě̀tru | *vě̀trъ |
Locative | *vě̀trě | *vě̀tru | *vě̀trě̄xъ |
Dative | *vě̀tru | *vě̀troma | *vě̀tromъ |
Instrumental | *vě̀trъmь, *vě̀tromь* | *vě̀troma | *vě̀trȳ |
Vocative | *vě̀tre | *vě̀tra | *vě̀tri |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
Related terms
- *vějati (“to blow (of wind), winnow”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “ветер”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
- Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), “ветер”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 146
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vě̀trъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 520: “m. o (a) ‘wind’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “větrъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 131; MP 23)”
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.