Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/širь
Appearance
Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Speculated to be a borrowing from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćšáytram (“land, country”) (likely via Scythian[1]), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- (“to settle, to cultivate”).
Alternatively, it could be a dialectal derivative of Proto-Indo-European *sḱēy- (“to shine”), cognate with Proto-Slavic *ščirъ (“sincere, honest”) and Proto-Germanic *skīriz (“sheer, pure”).
Noun
[edit]*šȋrь f[2]
Inflection
[edit]Declension of *širь (i-stem, uncountable)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: ширь (širĭ)
- Bulgarian: шир (šir)
- Macedonian: шир (šir)
- Slovene: šȋr (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ширь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
[edit]- ^ J. Komárková, V. Blažek (2013): Scytho-Slavica (in German), Indogermanische Forschungen
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “širȍk”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*šȋrъ”