Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/verteno

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/verteno

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 *wertena, from Proto-Indo-European *wertenom, equivalent to Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, to rotate”) + *-eno. Cognate with Sanskrit वर्तन (vártana, “rotation, rolling, spindle”).

Noun

*vertenò n[1][2][3]

1. spindle

   Synonym: *prędeno

Declension

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

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*vērtenò	*vertèně	*vērtenà
Accusative	*vērtenò	*vertèně	*vērtenà
Genitive	*vērtenà	*vērtenù	*vertènъ
Locative	*vērteně̀	*vērtenù	*vertèněxъ
Dative	*vērtenù	*vērtenòma	*vērtenòmъ
Instrumental	*vērtenъ̀mь, *vērtenòmь*	*vērtenòma	*vertèny
Vocative	*vērtenò	*vertèně	*vērtenà

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: веретено (vereteno)
    • Old Ruthenian: веретено (vereteno)
      • Old Belarusian: веретено (vereteno)[4]
        • Belarusian: верацяно́ (vjeracjanó)
      • Ukrainian: верете́но (vereténo)
    • Russian: веретено́ (veretenó)
      • → Estonian: värten
      • → Finnish: värttinä
      • → Livvi: värtin
      • → Ludian: värtin
      • → Veps: värtin
      • → Votic: värttene
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: врѣтено (vrěteno)

    Glagolitic: ⰲⱃⱑⱅⰵⱀⱁ (vrěteno)

  • Bulgarian: врете́но (vreténo); (dialectal) връте́но (vrǎténo)
  • Macedonian: вретено (vreteno)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: вретѐно

    Latin: vretèno

  • Slovene: vreténo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vřěteno
    • Czech: vřeteno
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): břeteno
      • Moravian (Mistřice): břeteno
  • Polabian: vritenĕ
  • Old Polish: wrzeciono
    • Polish: wrzeciono
  • Slovak: vreteno
  • Sorbian:

    Upper Sorbian: wrjećeno

    Lower Sorbian: wrjeśeno

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “веретено́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “вретено”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 186

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vertenò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 516
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “verteno”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 150; PR 135)”
3. Snoj, Marko (2016), “vreteno”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *vertenȍ”
4. Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1983), “веретено”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 3 (вариво – вкупе), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 118