Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bьrdo

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-Indo-European *bʰerh₃- (“to hit with a sharp instrument”) + *-do, whence also *boriti sę (“to fight”), and probably *borzda (“furrow”).

Cognate with Latvian birds (“loom”).

Usually compared with Germanic *burdą (“board, plank; table”), as if both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥h₃dʰo-.

Noun

*bьrdo n

1. weaving comb, reed
2. (by extension, South Slavic) hill, mountain

Declension

Declension of *bьrdo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bьrdo	*bьrdě	*bьrda
genitive	*bьrda	*bьrdu	*bьrdъ
dative	*bьrdu	*bьrdoma	*bьrdomъ
accusative	*bьrdo	*bьrdě	*bьrda
instrumental	*bьrdъmь, *bьrdomь*	*bьrdoma	*bьrdy
locative	*bьrdě	*bьrdu	*bьrděxъ
vocative	*bьrdo	*bьrdě	*bьrda

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

Derived terms

• *bьrdica
• *bьrdidlo
• *bьrditi (sę)
• *bьrdьce

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: бердо (berdo)
    • Belarusian: бёрда (bjórda)
    • Russian: бёрдо (bjórdo)
    • Ukrainian: бе́рдо (bérdo)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бъ́рдо (bǎ́rdo)
  • Macedonian: брдо (brdo), бердо (berdo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бр̏до

    Latin script: bȑdo

  • Slovene: bŕdo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: brdo
  • Polabian: b́ordü
  • Old Polish: bardo
    • Polish: bardo
  • Slovak: brdo
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: biardo
    • Slovincian: bjardô
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: bardo

• Other:
  • Hungarian: borda

From Early Proto-Slavic *birda:

• → Estonian: piird
• → Finnish: pirta
• → Ingrian: pirta
• → Karelian: pirta
• → Livvi: pirdu
• → Ludian: bird
• → Veps: bird
• → Votic: pirtõ

References

• Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
• Skok, Petar (1971) “Proto-Slavic/bьrdo”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 204
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bьrdo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 164
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бердо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress