Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/drъva

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *dъrva

Etymology

Plural of *drъvo sg (“tree”).

Noun

*drъvà n pl

1. (plural only) wood, firewood

Inflection

Declension of *drъvà (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c, plural only)

	plural
nominative	*drъvà
genitive	*drъ̀vъ
dative	*drъvòmъ
accusative	*drъvà
instrumental	*drъvý
locative	*drъvě̃xъ
vocative	*drъvà

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

Related terms

• *drъvьje (collective)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дръва (drŭva), дрова (drova), дрꙑва (dryva)
    • Old Belarusian: дрова (drova), дрыва (dryva), дрва (drva)
      • Belarusian: дро́вы (dróvy), дро́ва (dróva)
    • Middle Russian: дръва (drʺva), дрова (drova)
      • Russian: дрова́ (drová)
    • Old Ukrainian: дрова (drova), дрива (driva), дрыва (dryva), дърва (drva)
      • Ukrainian: дро́ва (dróva)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: дырва (dŷrva)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: дръва (drŭva)
    • Russian Church Slavonic: дръва (drŭva), дрова (drova)
  • Bulgarian: дърва́ (dǎrvá)
  • Macedonian: дрва (drva)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: др̀ва, др̏еа f (“log”)

    Latin script: dr̀va, dȑea f (“log”)

  • Slovene: dŕva
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: drva (dialectal)
  • Kashubian: drwa
  • Polabian: dråvă
  • Polish: drwa
  • Slovak: drvá (dialectal)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дрова”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*drъvo, мн. *drъva”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 141