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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/berďь

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 *berˀdjāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerh₁dyeh₂ (or *bʰerh₁deh₂ + *-j-), from *bʰer- (to bear (give birth to)) + *-d-.

Compare Lithuanian ber̃ždžias (barren (of a cow)), ber̃gždžias (barren (of a cow)), Latin fordus (pregnant) (< *foridos), forda.

Adjective

*bèrďь[1]

  1. pregnant

Declension

See also

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: бережая (berežaja)
    • Ukrainian: бережа (bereža)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: брѣжда (brěžda)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: бређа
      Latin script: bređa
    • Slovene: brẹ́ja (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бережая”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*berdja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 188

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bèrdjь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 36
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