Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/večerъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

PIE word
*wek(ʷ)speros

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wékeras (“evening”).

Noun

*vȅčerъ m

1. evening

Declension

Declension of *vȅčerъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*vȅčerъ	*vȅčera	*vȅčeri
genitive	*vȅčera	*večerù	*večèrъ
dative	*vȅčeru	*večeromà	*večeròmъ
accusative	*vȅčerъ	*vȅčera	*vȅčery
instrumental	*vȅčerъmь, *vȅčeromь*	*večeromà	*večerý
locative	*vȅčerě	*večerù	*večerě̃xъ
vocative	*večere	*vȅčera	*vȅčeri

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *navečerьje (“evening, time before dawn”)
• *večeřa (“supper”)

Related terms

• *vьčera (“yesterday”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вечеръ (večerŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: вечеръ (večer)
      • Belarusian: ве́чар (vjéčar)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: ве́чур (véčur)
      • Ukrainian: ве́чір (véčir)
    • Russian: ве́чер (véčer)
  • Old Novgorodian: *вецере (*većere)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: вечеръ (večerŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰲⰵⱍⰵⱃⱏ (večerŭ)

  • Bulgarian: ве́чер (véčer)
  • Macedonian: вечер (večer)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ве̏че̄р, ве̏че̄

    Latin: vȅčēr, vȅčē

  • Slovene: večẹ̑r (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: večer, večér, večier
    • Czech: večer
  • Old Polish: wieczór
    • Polish: wieczór
    • Silesian: wieczōr
  • Slovak: večer
  • Polabian: vicer
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: wieczór
    • Slovincian: wjêczór
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wjacor, jacor
    • Upper Sorbian: wječor

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вечер”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “vãkaras”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 714f