Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/večerъ

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

PIE word
*wek(ʷ)speros

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wékeras (“evening”).

Noun

*vȅčerъ m^[1]^[2]^[3]

evening

Declension

Declension of *vȅčerъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*vȅčerъ	*vȅčera	*vȅčeri
genitive	*vȅčera	*večerù	*večèrъ
dative	*vȅčeru	*večeromà	*večeròmъ
accusative	*vȅčerъ	*vȅčera	*vȅčery
instrumental	vȅčerъmь, vȅčeromь^*	*večeromà	*večerý
locative	*vȅčerě	*večerù	*večerě̃xъ
vocative	*večere	*vȅčera	*vȅčeri

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

Derived terms

*navečerьje (“evening, time before dawn”)
*večeřa (“supper”)

Related terms

*vьčera (“yesterday”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: вечеръ (večerŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: вечеръ (večer)
    - Belarusian: ве́чар (vjéčar)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: ве́чур (véčur)
    - Ukrainian: ве́чір (véčir)
  - Russian: ве́чер (véčer)
- Old Novgorodian: *вецере (*većere)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: вечеръ (večerŭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰲⰵⱍⰵⱃⱏ (večerŭ)
- Bulgarian: ве́чер (véčer)
- Macedonian: вечер (večer)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ве̏че̄р, ве̏че̄
  
  Latin: vȅčēr, vȅčē
- Slovene: večẹ̑r (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: večer, večér, večier
  - Czech: večer
- Old Polish: wieczór
  - Polish: wieczór
  - Silesian: wieczōr
- Slovak: večer
- Polabian: vicer
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: wieczór
  - Slovincian: wjêczór
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: wjacor, jacor
  - Upper Sorbian: wječor

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vȅčerъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 513: “m. o (c) ‘evening’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “večerъ večera”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 137); c (NA 99); d (OSA 42, 147; RPT 84) evening”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “večẹ̑r”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*vȅčerъ”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vȅčerъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 513: “m. o (c) ‘evening’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “večerъ večera”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 137); c (NA 99); d (OSA 42, 147; RPT 84) evening”

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

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