веревка

See also: верёвка

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

• верїо́вка (verjóvka), веро́вка (veróvka), вꙗро́вка (vjaróvka)

Etymology

First attested in 1518. Inherited from Old East Slavic вьрвь (vĭrvĭ) + -ъка (-ŭka) with secondary effect pleophony -ьr- > -ere-, perhaps from Proto-Slavic *vьrvъka, from *vь̑rvь. By surface analysis, вервъ (verv) +‎ -ка (-ka). Compare Old Novgorodian вьрвъка (vĭrvŭka) and Middle Russian вере́вка (verévka), first attested c. 1500, whence Russian верёвка (verjóvka).

Noun

вере́вка • (verévka) f inan

1. rope, line
   • 1518 December 20, Скорина, Францискъ, Бивлиꙗ рꙋска, Книги Исꙋса Навина, Прага: Выложена докторомъ Францискомъ Скориною, page 7b:

     и спустила ихъ жена о́кномⸯ по веревⸯце, понеже домъ ее́ былъ естъ при стене градове

     i spustila ix žena óknom po verevce, poneže dom ejé byl est pri stene hradove

     the wife lowered them out the window using a rope, lower, her house was near the city wall

2. string, lace

Related terms

nouns

• ве́рвица (vérvica)
• вервъ (verv)

 

Descendants

• Belarusian: вяро́ўка (vjaróŭka); (dialectal) вярёўка (vjarjóŭka), вэроўка (veróŭka)
• Ukrainian: (dialectal) вере́вка (verévka); >? вірьо́вка (virʹóvka), верьо́вка (verʹóvka) (perhaps borrowed from Russian)

Further reading

• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1983), “веревка, вериовка, веровка, вяровка”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 3 (вариво – вкупе), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 117
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1996), “веровка”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 3 (богъ – весъной), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 234
• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “веровка”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 217