Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rovъ
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *rawas, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- (“to dig out”).[1] Cognate with Lithuanian rãvas (“ditch”), Old Prussian rawys (“ditch”).
Noun edit
Declension edit
Declension of *rovъ (hard o-stem)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ров”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References edit
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 2517, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2517
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*rovъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 439: “m. o ‘ditch, pitch’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “rovъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b/c grav (PR 137)”