Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dvorъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dvorъ

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-Balto-Slavic *dwára (“doorway”), turning masculine by Illič-Svityč's rule, from earlier *dwáran, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwór-o-m, from *dʰwer- (“door”). Compare Latin forum, Old English dor.

Noun

*dvòrъ m[1][2]

1. court, courtyard

Inflection

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

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*dvòrъ	*dvorà	*dvorì
Accusative	*dvòrъ	*dvorà	*dvorỳ
Genitive	*dvorà	*dvorù	*dvòrъ
Locative	*dvorě̀	*dvorù	*dvòrěxъ
Dative	*dvorù	*dvoròma	*dvoròmъ
Instrumental	*dvorъ̀mь, *dvoròmь*	*dvoròma	*dvòry
Vocative	*dvore	*dvorà	*dvorì

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дворъ (dvorŭ)
    • Belarusian: двор (dvor)
    • Russian: двор (dvor)
    • Ukrainian: двір (dvir)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: дворъ (dvorŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰴⰲⱁⱃⱏ (dvorŭ)

  • Bulgarian: двор (dvor)
  • Macedonian: двор (dvor)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: дво̑р

    Latin: dvȏr

  • Slovene: dvọ̀r
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dvór
    • Czech: dvůr
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): dvůr
  • Polabian: dör
  • Polish: dwór
  • Slovak: dvor
  • Slovincian: dvȯ́r
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: dwór
    • Lower Sorbian: dwór

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: udvar

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “двор”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dvorъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 169

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dvòrъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 128: “m. o (b) ‘court, courtyard’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “dvorъ dvora”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b court (NA 108, 141; SA 21, 69, 146, 199; PR 134; RPT 83ff.)”