Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dvьrь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dvьrь

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 *dwírs, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-.

Noun

*dvь̀rь f[1][2]

1. door

Declension

Declension of *dvь̀rь (i-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*dvь̀rь	*dvьrì	*dvьrì
Accusative	*dvь̀rь	*dvьrì	*dvьrì
Genitive	*dvь̀ri	*dvь̀rьju, *dvьřu*	*dvьrь̀jь, *dvь̀ri*
Locative	*dvь̀ri	*dvь̀rьju, *dvьřu*	*dvьrь̀xъ
Dative	*dvьrì	*dvь̀rьma	*dvьrь̀mъ
Instrumental	*dvь̀rьjǫ, *dvь̀řǫ*	*dvь̀rьma	*dvь̀rьmī
Vocative	*dvьri	*dvьrì	*dvьrì

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: двьрь (dvĭrĭ)
    • Belarusian: дзве́ры pl (dzvjéry)
    • Russian: дверь (dverʹ), две́ри pl (dvéri)
    • Ukrainian: две́рі pl (dvéri)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: двьри pl (dvĭri), двьрь (dvĭrĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰴⰲⱐⱃⰻ pl (dvĭri), ⰴⰲⱐⱃⱐ (dvĭrĭ)

    • → Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)

      Cyrillic: две̑ри pl

      Latin: dvȇri pl

  • Bulgarian: две́ри pl (dvéri)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)

    Cyrillic: двар

    Latin: dvar

  • Macedonian: двер (dver) (archaic)
  • Slovene: dūri (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: dveře pl
  • Kashubian: dwiérze, dwérze
  • Polabian: dvar
  • Old Polish: dźwirze pl
    • Polish: drzwi pl
      • (Ślemień): dźv́iře pl
  • Silesian: dźwiyrze pl
  • Slovak: dvere pl
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: źurja pl
    • Upper Sorbian: durje pl

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “дверь”, 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), “*dvьrь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 128: “f. i (b) ‘door’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “dvьrь dvьri”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 21, 148, 199; IRU 79, 94; PR 136)”