Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bermę

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

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bermen, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHmen. Cognate with Sanskrit भरीमन् (bhárīman, “supporting, nourishing”).

Noun

*bèrmę n

1. load, burden

Inflection

Declension of *bèrmę (n-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bèrmę	*bèrmeni	*bèrmenā
genitive	*bèrmene	*bèrmenu	*bèrmenъ
dative	*bèrmeni	*bèrmenьma	*bèrmenьmъ
accusative	*bèrmę	*bèrmeni	*bèrmenā
instrumental	*bèrmenьmь	*bèrmenьma	*bèrmenȳ
locative	*bèrmene	*bèrmenu	*bèrmenьxъ
vocative	*bèrmę	*bèrmeni	*bèrmenā

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: беремѧ (beremę)
    • Belarusian: бярэ́мя (bjarémja)
    • Russian: бере́мя (berémja) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: беремя (beremja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: брѣмѧ (brěmę)
    • Bulgarian: бре́ме (bréme)
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: бреме, бриме, бримен

      Latin script: breme, brime, bremen

    • → Russian: бре́мя (brémja)
  • Macedonian: бреме (breme)
  • Slovene: bréme (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: břiemě
    • Czech: břímě
  • Polish: brzemię
  • Slovak: bremeno, bremä (archaic)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: brěmje
    • Upper Sorbian: brěmjo

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*bermę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 01 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 196