Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vědro

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

Meillet, Vasmer, Georgiev, Snoj: From Proto-Indo-European *wēdróm. Parallel to Ancient Greek ὑδρία (hudría, “water vessel”) (0-grade) and akin to Latin unda, Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr), Proto-Germanic *watōr, Sanskrit उदन् (udan), Hittite 𒉿𒀀𒋻 (wa-a-tar).
Derksen: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wēˀdera (“belly, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”), from *úd (“out, outward”) +‎ *-eros (contrastive suffix). Baltic cognates include Latvian vȩ̂dȩrs, vȩ̂dars, Lithuanian vė́deras and Old Prussian weders. Indo-European cognates include Latin uterus, Ancient Greek ὕδερος (húderos) and Sanskrit उदर (udara).

Noun

*vědrò n^[1]^[2]^[3]

bucket, pail

Declension

Declension of *vě̄drò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*vě̄drò	*vě̃drě	*vě̄drà
genitive	*vě̄drà	*vě̄drù	*vě̃drъ
dative	*vě̄drù	*vě̄dròma	*vě̄dròmъ
accusative	*vě̄drò	*vě̃drě	*vě̄drà
instrumental	vě̄drъ̀mь, vě̄dròmь^*	*vě̄dròma	*vě̃dry
locative	*vě̄drě̀	*vě̄drù	*vě̃drěxъ
vocative	*vě̄drò	*vě̃drě	*vě̄drà

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

Derived terms

*vědrica (diminutive)
*vědrenikъ (“kettle”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: вѣдро́ (vědró)
  - Old Ruthenian: вѣдро́ (vědró), видро́ (vidró)^[4]
    - Belarusian: вядро́ (vjadró)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: відрó (vidró)
    - Ukrainian: відро́ (vidró)
  - Russian: ведро́ (vedró)
    - ⇒ Russian: ведёрко (vedjórko)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: вѣдро (vědro)
  - → Albanian: vedër
  - → Hungarian: veder
  - → Greek: βέδρον (védron) (dialectal)
- Bulgarian: ведро́ (vedró)
- Macedonian: ведро (vedro)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ве̏дро, вје̏дро
  
  Latin: vȅdro, vjȅdro
- Slovene: védro (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: vědro
  - Czech: vědro
    - Moravian (Mistřice): vjedrp
- Old Polish: wiedro
  - Polish: wiadro
- Slovak: vedro

Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: vadră, veardă

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vědrò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 518: “n. o (b) ‘bucket’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “vědro”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b spand (SA 151; PR 135)”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “védro”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*vědrȍ”
^ Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1999), “вѣдро, ведро, видро”, 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 6 (выпросити – головный), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 133

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vědrò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 518: “n. o (b) ‘bucket’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “vědro”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b spand (SA 151; PR 135)”

[3] Snoj, Marko (2016) “védro”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*vědrȍ”

[4] Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1999), “вѣдро, ведро, видро”, 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 6 (выпросити – головный), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 133

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