Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vьčera

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-Balto-Slavic *weker- (whence Latvian vakar, Latgalian vakar and Lithuanian vakar). Morphologically from *vȅčerъ (“evening”).

Adverb

*vьčerà

1. yesterday

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вьчера (vĭčera)
    • Old Ruthenian: вчера (včera)
      • Belarusian: учо́ра (učóra), ўчо́ра (wčóra)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: вчёра (včjora)
      • Ukrainian: учо́ра (učóra), вчо́ра (včóra)
    • Russian: вчера́ (včerá)
  • Old Novgorodian: *вьцера (*vĭcʹjera)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: вьчера (vĭčera)
    • Bulgarian: вче́ра (včéra)
  • Macedonian: вчера (včera)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ју̀че̄р, ју̀че̄, вчера

    Latin: jùčēr, jùčē, včera

  • Slovene: včẹ́raj (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: včera, včéra, včiera
    • Czech: včera
  • Polabian: ceră
  • Old Polish: wczora
    • Polish: wczoraj, wczora (obsolete), wcora (Kielce)
    • Silesian: wczora
  • Old Slovak: včera
    • Pannonian Rusyn: вчера (včera)
    • Slovak: včera
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: wczora
    • Slovincian: wczero
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wcora (obsolete), cora
    • Upper Sorbian: wčera

Further reading

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