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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/borvъ

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 *bʰorwos. Cognate with Albanian berr, Old Norse bǫrgr, Old High German barug, barh, Old English bearg (English barrow (“castrated boar”)).

Noun

*bȏrvъ m[1][2]

  1. wether (castrated stock animal either ram, buck, or hog)
  2. male youngling of a stock animal

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: боровъ (borovŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: бравъ (bravŭ)
      Glagolitic:
    • Bulgarian: брав (brav)
    • Macedonian: брав (brav)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: бра̑в
      Latin script: brȃv
    • Slovene: brȃv
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бо́ров”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*borvъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 214

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bȏrvъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 58: “m. o (c)”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “borvъ borva”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 167; PR 137); d (OSA 140; RPT 84, 105)”
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