Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/večerъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/večerъ

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

PIE word
*wek(ʷ)speros

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wékeras (“evening”).

Noun

*vȅčerъ m[1][2][3]

1. evening

Declension

Declension of *vȅčerъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*vȅčerъ	*vȅčera	*vȅčeri
Accusative	*vȅčerъ	*vȅčera	*vȅčery
Genitive	*vȅčera	*večerù	*večèrъ
Locative	*vȅčerě	*večerù	*večerě̃xъ
Dative	*vȅčeru	*večeromà	*večeròmъ
Instrumental	*vȅčerъmь, *vȅčeromь*	*večeromà	*večerý
Vocative	*večere	*vȅčera	*vȅčeri

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

Derived terms

• *navečerьje (“evening, time before dawn”)
• *večeřa (“supper”)

Related terms

• *vьčera (“yesterday”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вечеръ (večerŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: вечеръ (večer)
      • Belarusian: ве́чар (vjéčar)
      • Rusyn: ве́чур (véčur)
      • Ukrainian: ве́чір (véčir)
    • Russian: ве́чер (véčer)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: вечеръ (večerŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰲⰵⱍⰵⱃⱏ (večerŭ)

  • Bulgarian: ве́чер (véčer)
  • Macedonian: вечер (večer)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ве̏че̄р, ве̏че̄

    Latin: vȅčēr, vȅčē

  • Slovene: večẹ̑r (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: večer
    • Czech: večer
  • Kashubian: wieczór
  • Polabian: vicer
  • Polish: wieczór
  • Silesian: wieczōr
  • Slovak: večer
  • Slovincian: vjìe̯čȯr
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wjacor, jacor
    • Upper Sorbian: wječor

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “вечер”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007), “vãkaras”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 714f

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vȅčerъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 513: “m. o (c) ‘evening’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “večerъ večera”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 137); c (NA 99); d (OSA 42, 147; RPT 84) evening”
3. Snoj, Marko (2016), “večẹ̑r”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*vȅčerъ”