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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žeravľь
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ger-, from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂ōws. Cognate with Lithuanian gérvė, Latvian dzērve, Old Prussian gerwe.
Noun
*žeravľь m[1][2]
- crane
Alternative forms
- *žeravь (i-stem)
Declension
Declension of *žeravľь (soft o-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *žeravľь | *žeravľa | *žeravľi |
| Accusative | *žeravľь | *žeravľa | *žeravľę̇ |
| Genitive | *žeravľa | *žeravľu | *žeravľь |
| Locative | *žeravľi | *žeravľu | *žeravľixъ |
| Dative | *žeravľu | *žeravľema | *žeravľemъ |
| Instrumental | *žeravľьmь, *žeravľemь* | *žeravľema | *žeravľi |
| Vocative | *žeravľu | *žeravľa | *žeravľi |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: журавь (žuravĭ), жеравль (žeravlĭ)
- Belarusian: жураве́ль (žuravjélʹ), жораў (žóraŭ)
- Russian: жура́вль (žurávlʹ)
- Ukrainian: жураве́ль (žuravélʹ)
- Old East Slavic: журавь (žuravĭ), жеравль (žeravlĭ)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: же́рав (žérav)
- ⇒ Bulgarian: жа́раб (žárab) (dialectal, reanalyzed as жерав + ястреб)
- Macedonian: жерав (žerav)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: жѐра̄в, ждра̑л
- Latin: žèrāv, ždrȃl, ždrȃlj
- Slovene: žerjȁv (tonal orthography)
- Bulgarian: же́рав (žérav)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: jeřáb
- Polish: żuraw
- Slovak: žeriav
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: žorawa f
- Upper Sorbian: žeraw
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “жура́вль”, 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), “жерав”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 536
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “žeravь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558: “m. jo ‘crane’”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “žerjàv”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *žeravь̏, *žeravl'ь̏”