Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/topьrvo

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 *to (“that”) +‎ *pьrvo (“first”).

Adverb

*topьrvo

1. there, here (it is), voilà

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: топьрво (topĭrvo), топерь (toperĭ), тепьрво (tepĭrvo)
    • Belarusian: цяпе́р (cjapjér)
    • Ukrainian: тепе́р (tepér), тепе́ра (tepéra)
    • Russian: тепе́рь (tepérʹ), (dialectal) тепере (tepere), теперя (teperja), теперьво (teperʹvo), топерь (toperʹ), топере (topere), топерья (toperʹja), топерьво (toperʹvo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: топьрво (topĭrvo)

    Glagolitic script: ⱅⱁⱂⱐⱃⰲⱁ (topĭrvo)

  • Bulgarian: тепъ́рва (tepǎ́rva)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: топрв

    Latin script: toprv

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: teprvo, teprva, teprv, tepróv, tepruv, teprú, tepruva, teprvú
    • Czech: teprv, teprve
  • Old Polish: dopiro, dopioro, dopirzo
    • Polish: dopiero, dopirzo, dopioro (Middle Polish), dopiro (Middle Polish or Near Masovian)
    • Silesian: dopiyro, dziepro, dziepiyro
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: dopiérze, dopiéro, dopiére, dopiérkù, dopiéreczkù
    • Slovincian: dôpjérze

Further reading

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