Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/Dunavь

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *Dunajь

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *Dōnawjaz, from Proto-Celtic *Dānowyos (whence also Danubius), an extended form of the river-name *Dānu, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂nu (“river goddess”), akin to *dʰenh₂- (“to set in motion; to flow”).

Proper noun

*Dunavь m

1. Danube

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: Дунаи (Dunai)
    • Old Ruthenian: Дуна́й (Dunáj)
      • Belarusian: Дуна́й (Dunáj)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: Дуна́й (Dunáj)
      • Ukrainian: Дуна́й (Dunáj); дуна́й (dunáj)
    • Russian: Дуна́й (Dunáj); дуна́й (dunáj) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: Доунавъ (Dunavŭ)

    Glagolitic script: Ⰴⱆⱀⰰⰲⱏ (Dunavŭ)

    • Bulgarian: Ду́нав (Dúnav)
    • Macedonian: Дунав (Dunav)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: Ду̀нав, Ду̀на̑ј

    Latin script: Dùnav, Dùnȃj

  • Slovene: Dúnaj (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: Dunaj
  • Polish: Dunaj
  • Slovak: Dunaj

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “Дуна́й”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress