Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vedro

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vedro

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

Substantivized neuter adjective *vedrъ (“(of weather) fair, clear”), compare Czech jasno n, dial. Russian ясень f (jasenʹ, “clear weather”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom, whence also Proto-Germanic *wedrą (“weather”).

Noun

*vedro n[1][2]

1. fair, clear weather

Inflection

Declension of *vedro (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*vedro	*vedrě	*vedra
Accusative	*vedro	*vedrě	*vedra
Genitive	*vedra	*vedru	*vedrъ
Locative	*vedrě	*vedru	*vedrěxъ
Dative	*vedru	*vedroma	*vedromъ
Instrumental	*vedrъmь, *vedromь*	*vedroma	*vedry
Vocative	*vedro	*vedrě	*vedra

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

See also

• *vermę
• *časъ
• *godina

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ведро (vedro)
    • Russian: вёдро (vjódro)
    • Ukrainian: ве́дро (védro)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ведро (vedro)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: vedro
  • Kashubian: wiodro
  • Polabian: vedrü
  • Old Polish: wiodro
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wjedro
    • Lower Sorbian: wjadro

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ведро”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. (1993), “вёдро”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 137
• Chernykh, P. (1993), “ясный”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 474
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ěsknъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 51

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vedro”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 513: “n. o ‘nice weather’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “vedro”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a[?] serenum (PR 132)”