Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/divo

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/divo

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

Deverbal from *diviti. Secondary to *divъ, probably influenced by *čudo.

Noun

*dȋvo n[1][2]

1. admiration, delight, astonishment
2. that which causes delight; wonder, miracle

Inflection

Declension of *dȋvo (s-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*dȋvo	*dȋvesi	*divesà
Accusative	*dȋvo	*dȋvesi	*divesà
Genitive	*dȋvese	*divesù	*divèsъ
Locative	*dȋvese	*divesù	*divèsьxъ
Dative	*dȋvesi	*divesьmà	*divèsьmъ
Instrumental	*dȋvesьmь	*divesьmà	*divesý
Vocative	*dȋvo	*dȋvesi	*divesà

Related terms

• *diviti
• *divъ
• *divьnъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: дзі́ва (dzíva)
  • Russian: ди́во (dívo)
  • Ukrainian: ди́во (dývo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: диво (divo)

    Glagolitic: ⰴⰻⰲⱁ (divo)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ди̑во

    Latin: dȋvo

• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: dziwo
    • Polish: dziwo
  • Slovak: divo

Further reading

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

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dȋvo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 108: “n. s (c) ‘miracle’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “divo divese”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 82; PR 138)”