Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věra

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wēˀrāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁reh₂, from *weh₁- (“true”).

Noun

*vě̀ra f

1. faith, belief

Inflection

Declension of *vě̀ra (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*vě̀ra	*vě̀rě	*vě̀ry
genitive	*vě̀ry	*vě̀ru	*vě̀rъ
dative	*vě̀rě	*vě̀rama	*vě̀ramъ
accusative	*vě̀rǫ	*vě̀rě	*vě̀ry
instrumental	*vě̀rojǫ, *vě̀rǭ**	*vě̀rama	*vě̀ramī
locative	*vě̀rě	*vě̀ru	*vě̀rasъ, *vě̀raxъ*
vocative	*vě̀ro	*vě̀rě	*vě̀ry

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms

• *věrьnъ
• *věriti, *věrovati

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вѣра (věra)
    • Old Ruthenian: вѣра (věra)
      • Belarusian: ве́ра (vjéra)
      • Ukrainian: ві́ра (víra)
    • Russian: ве́ра (véra)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: вѣра (věra)
  • Bulgarian: вя́ра (vjára)
  • Macedonian: вера (vera)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ве̏ра

    Latin script: vȅra

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): vȉra
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): vȅra
    • Kajkavian (Bednja): vȅro
  • Slovene: vẹ́ra (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: viera
    • Czech: víra
  • Old Polish: wiera
    • Polish: wiara
  • Slovak: viera
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wěra
    • Lower Sorbian: wěra

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*věra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 520
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вера”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “вера”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 141
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “вера”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa