Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/termъ

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

*termъ m

1. tower?

Inflection

Declension of *termъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*termъ	*terma	*termi
genitive	*terma	*termu	*termъ
dative	*termu	*termoma	*termomъ
accusative	*termъ	*terma	*termy
instrumental	*termъmь, *termomь*	*termoma	*termy
locative	*termě	*termu	*terměxъ
vocative	*terme	*terma	*termi

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: теремъ (teremŭ)
    • Russian: те́рем (térem)
    • Ukrainian: те́рем (térem)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: трѣмъ (trěmŭ)

    • Bulgarian: трем (trem) (obsolete)
    • Macedonian: трем (trem)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: трије̑м, тре̑м

    Latin script: trijȇm, trȇm

  • Slovene: trẹ̑m (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: trzem, strzem
    • Middle Polish: trzem

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Albanian: treme

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “те́рем”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress