Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/větrъ
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Proto-Slavic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wēˀtrāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-.
Cognate with Lithuanian vė́tra (“storm”), Latvian vētra (“storm”), Old Prussian wetro (“wind”), Latin ventus (“wind”), Sanskrit वाति (vāti, “to blow”).
Noun[edit]
Inflection[edit]
Declension of *vě̀trъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *vě̀trъ | *vě̀tra | *vě̀tri |
genitive | *vě̀tra | *vě̀tru | *vě̀trъ |
dative | *vě̀tru | *vě̀troma | *vě̀tromъ |
accusative | *vě̀trъ | *vě̀tra | *vě̀try |
instrumental | *vě̀trъmь, *vě̀tromь* | *vě̀troma | *vě̀trȳ |
locative | *vě̀trě | *vě̀tru | *vě̀trě̄xъ |
vocative | *vě̀tre | *vě̀tra | *vě̀tri |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- *vějati (“to blow (of wind), winnow”)
Descendants[edit]
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading[edit]
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ветер”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ветер”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 146
References[edit]
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vě̀trъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 520: “m. o (a) ‘wind’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “větrъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 131; MP 23)”