Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zvonъ

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

Pokorny reconstructs the root as *ǵʰwon- (whence Albanian zë), however Derksen holds that the root *swenh₂- (whence Latin sonus) must be considered a serious alternative.

Noun

*zvȍnъ m

1. sound

Declension

Declension of *zvȍnъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*zvȍnъ	*zvȍna	*zvȍni
genitive	*zvȍna	*zvonù	*zvònъ
dative	*zvȍnu	*zvonomà	*zvonòmъ
accusative	*zvȍnъ	*zvȍna	*zvȍny
instrumental	*zvȍnъmь, *zvȍnomь*	*zvonomà	*zvoný
locative	*zvȍně	*zvonù	*zvoně̃xъ
vocative	*zvone	*zvȍna	*zvȍni

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *zvьněti (“to ring, clank”)
• *zvǫkъ, *zvękъ (“sound”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: звон (zvon)
    • Russian: звон (zvon)
    • Ukrainian: звін (zvin), дзвін (dzvin)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: звонъ (zvonŭ)

    Unspecified script:

  • Bulgarian: звъ̀н (zvǎ̀n)
  • Macedonian: ѕвон (dzvon)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зво̏н

    Latin script: zvȍn

  • Slovene: zvon
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: zvon
  • Polish: dzwon
  • Slovak: zvon
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: zvon
    • Upper Sorbian: zvon
• → Lithuanian: zvãnas
• → Latvian: zvans

Further reading

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