Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dernъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dernъ

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 Proto-Indo-European *dʰergʰ- (“sloetree, blackbush”). Cognate with Proto-Celtic *dragenā (“blackthorn”) (whence Irish draighean, Welsh draen) and Ancient Greek τέρχνος (térkhnos, “twig, young shoot”).[1]

Noun

*dẽrnъ m[2][3]

1. cornel, dogwood

Declension

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

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*dẽrnъ	*dērnà	*dērnì
Accusative	*dẽrnъ	*dērnà	*dērnỳ
Genitive	*dērnà	*dērnù	*dẽrnъ
Locative	*dērně̀	*dērnù	*dẽrněxъ
Dative	*dērnù	*dērnòma	*dērnòmъ
Instrumental	*dērnъ̀mь, *dērnòmь*	*dērnòma	*dẽrny
Vocative	*derne	*dērnà	*dērnì

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: дёрен (djóren), дерён (derjón)
  • Ukrainian: дере́н (derén)
    • → Polish: dereń
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: дрян (drjan), дрен (dren)
  • Macedonian: дрен (dren)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: дрије̑н, дре̏н

    Latin: drijȇn, drȅn

  • Slovene: drȅn (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dřien
    • Czech: dřín
  • Polish: drzón
  • Slovak: drieň
  • Slovincian: dřȯ́u̯n
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: drěn

• → Old High German: tyrn, tirnpaumâ, tirnboumâ, dirnbaum, tirnboum, dirnboum
  • Alemannic German: Tierlibaum
  • Bavarian German: Dirndl n or f, Dirndlstrauch m, Dirndlbaum m, Dirnleinbaum m, Dirnlein n, Dirle f, Dirliz f

Further reading

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

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “dragenā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 104
2. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dérnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 99: “m. o (b) ‘cornel, dogwood’”
3. Olander, Thomas (2001), “dernъ derna”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b Cornel sherry (NA 111, 142; SA 21)”