звѣръ
Old Ruthenian
Alternative forms
- зверъ (zver), zwer, звиръ (zvir), zwir
- звѣрь (zvěrʹ), зъвѣрь (zvěrʹ), зверь (zverʹ), звирь (zvirʹ)
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic звѣрь (zvěrĭ), from Proto-Slavic *zvě̑rь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źwēˀrís, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-is, from *ǵʰwer-. Cognate with Russian зверь (zverʹ), Old Novgorodian ꙁвѣре (zvěre), Old Church Slavonic звѣрь (zvěrĭ).
Noun
звѣръ • (zvěr) m anim (genitive звѣра, nominative plural звѣры, genitive plural звѣровъ, related adjective звѣриный or звѣрѧчїй, diminutive звѣрѧ or звѣрѧтко)
- wild animal, beast
- game meat
- creature
- (figuratively) devil, satan
Related terms
Old Ruthenian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰwer- (0 c, 2 e)
Descendants
- Belarusian: звер (zvjer); зьвер (zʹvjer) (Taraškievica orthography)
- Rusyn: звірь (zvirʹ)
- Ukrainian: звір (zvir)
Further reading
- Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “*зверъ; *звер”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1: А – М, Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 390
- Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “*звѣрь; *звирь”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1: А – М, Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 391
- Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (2004), “звѣръ, звѣрь, зверъ, зверь, звиръ”, in Словник української мови XVI – I пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), issue 11 (затраченє – злечитисѧ), Lviv: Krypiakevych I.U.S., →ISBN, page 139
- Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1993), “зверь, зверъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 12 (зашкодный – злотницкий), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 82
- Tymchenko, E. K. (2002), “звѣръ”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст.: у 2-х кн. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of the 15ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.: in 2 bks.] (Пам'ятки української мови) (in Ukrainian), volume 1: А – Н, Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 310