веревка

See also: верёвка

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

• верїо́вка (verjóvka), веро́вка (veróvka), вꙗро́вка (vjaróvka)

Etymology

First attested in 1518. Inherited from Old East Slavic вьрвь (vĭrvĭ) + -ъка (-ŭka) with secondary effect pleophony -ьr- > -ere-, perhaps from Proto-Slavic *vьrvъka, from *vь̑rvь. By surface analysis, вервъ (verv) +‎ -ка (-ka). Compare Old Novgorodian вьрвъка (vĭrvŭka) and Middle Russian вере́вка (verévka), first attested c. 1500, whence Russian верёвка (verjóvka).

Noun

вере́вка • (verévka) f inan

1. rope, line
   • 1518 December 20, Скорина, Францискъ, Бивлиꙗ рꙋска, Книги Исꙋса Навина, Прага: Выложена докторомъ Францискомъ Скориною, page 7b:

     спустила ихъ жена окномⸯ по веревце, понеже домъ ее былъ естъ при стене градове

     spustila ix žena oknom po verevce, poneže dom eje byl est pri stene hradove

     the wife lowered them out the window using a rope, lower, her house was near the city wall

2. string, lace

Related terms

nouns

• ве́рвица (vérvica)
• вервъ (verv)

 

Descendants

• Belarusian: вяро́ўка (vjaróŭka); (dialectal) вярёўка (vjarjóŭka), вэроўка (veróŭka)
• Ukrainian: (dialectal) вере́вка (verévka); >? вірьо́вка (virʹóvka), верьо́вка (verʹóvka) (perhaps borrowed from Russian)

Further reading

• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1983), “веревка, вериовка, веровка, вяровка”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 3 (вариво – вкупе), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 117
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1996), “веровка”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 3 (богъ – весъной), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 234
• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “веровка”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 217