Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vixъrъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vixъrъ

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 *weiˀšuras, *weiˀšulas (“whirlwind”).[1]

Noun

*vìxъrъ m[1][2]

1. whirlwind

Inflection

Declension of *vixъrъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*vixъrъ	*vixъra	*vixъri
Accusative	*vixъrъ	*vixъra	*vixъry
Genitive	*vixъra	*vixъru	*vixъrъ
Locative	*vixъrě	*vixъru	*vixъrě̄xъ
Dative	*vixъru	*vixъroma	*vixъromъ
Instrumental	*vixъrъmь, *vixъromь*	*vixъroma	*vixъrȳ
Vocative	*vixъre	*vixъra	*vixъri

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

Related terms

Proto-Slavic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weh₁y-‎ (0 c, 4 e)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вихърь (vixŭrĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: вихръ (vixr)
      • Belarusian: віхор (vixór)
      • Ukrainian: ви́хор (výxor)
    • Russian: вихрь (vixrʹ), вихо́р (vixór), (dialectal) ви́хор (víxor)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: вихъръ (vixŭrŭ)
  • Bulgarian: ви́хър (víhǎr)
  • Macedonian: виор (vior)
  • Serbo-Croatian: vihor
  • Slovene: vihȃr (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vichr
    • Czech: vichr
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): věchar, vichar
  • Polabian: vaixår
  • Old Polish: wicher
    • Polish: wicher, (archaic) wichr
  • Slovak: víchor
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wichor
    • Lower Sorbian: wichor, (archaic) wichar

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: vihar
  • → Romanian: vifor

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vixъrъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 522: “m. o ‘whirlwind’”
2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “vihȃr”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*vi̋xъrь”