Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/burьjanъ

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

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Noun

*burьjanъ m

1. weed

Declension

Declension of *burьjanъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*burьjanъ	*burьjana	*burьjani
genitive	*burьjana	*burьjanu	*burьjanъ
dative	*burьjanu	*burьjanoma	*burьjanomъ
accusative	*burьjanъ	*burьjana	*burьjany
instrumental	*burьjanъmь, *burьjanomь*	*burьjanoma	*burьjany
locative	*burьjaně	*burьjanu	*burьjaněxъ
vocative	*burьjane	*burьjana	*burьjani

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: буръꙗ́нъ (burʺján)
    • Belarusian: бур'я́н (burʺján)
    • Ukrainian: бур'я́н (burʺján); бу́йрян (bújrjan) (dialectal)
      • → Polish: burzan
  • Russian: бурья́н (burʹján)
    • → Czech: buřan
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: бу̀рјан, бу̀рјам (dialectal)

      Latin script: bùrjan, bùrjam (dialectal)

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бу́рен (búren); буря́н (burján) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: бурјан (burjan)
• West Slavic:
  • Slovak: buran, bureň, burina f
    • → Czech: buřeň, burina f

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: burján
  • → Romanian: buriană, buruiană

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*burьjanъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 99
• Anikin, A. E. (2011) “бурья́н I”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 5 (буба – вакштаф), Moscow: Znak, →ISBN, page 198
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “бур'ян”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1978), “бур'я́н”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 1 (А – бячэ́йка), Minsk: Navuka i technika
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бурья́н”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress