Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pivo
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ph₃i-wo-m. Equivalently from *piti (“to drink”).
Cognate with Ancient Greek πῖνον (pînon, “beer”).
Noun
*pȋvo n[1]
Inflection
Declension of *pȋvo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пиво”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pȋvo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 402: “n. o (c) ‘drink, beer’”