деревнꙗ

Old East Slavic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛˈrɛʋɪnʲɑ/→/dʲɛˈrʲɛʋʲɪnʲa/→/dʲɛˈrʲɛːʋʲnʲa/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /dɛˈrɛʋɪnʲɑ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /dʲɛˈrʲɛʋʲɪnʲa/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /dʲɛˈrʲɛːʋʲnʲa/

Noun

деревнꙗ (derevnja)

1. Alternative form of деревьнꙗ (derevĭnja)

Derived terms

• дереве́ньскꙑи (derevénĭskyi)
• дереве́нька (derevénĭka)

Descendants

• Old Ruthenian: дере́внꙗ (derévnja, “village; lumber, timber”)
  • Belarusian: дзярэ́ўня (dzjaréŭnja, “village”)
  • Ukrainian: дере́вня (derévnja, “forest used for construction”)
• Russian: дере́вня (derévnja, “village”), дерёвня (derjóvnja) — dialectal or slang
  • → Kazakh: деревня (derevnä)
  • → Komi-Yazva: диревня (ďirevńa)
  • → Kyrgyz: деревня (derevnya)
  • → Southern Altai: деремне (deremne)
  • → Yakut: дэриэбинэ (deriebine)
• → Polish: derewnia (“village”)

Old Ruthenian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic дере́внꙗ (derévnja), from Proto-Slavic *dьrvьňa. Cognate with Russian дере́вня (derévnja).

Noun

деревнꙗ • (derevnja) f inan

1. village
2. lumber, timber used for construction

Descendants

• Belarusian: дзярэ́ўня (dzjaréŭnja, “village”)
• Ukrainian: дере́вня (derévnja, “forest used for construction”)

Further reading

• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1932), “деревня”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 2 (Г – Ж), Kharkiv, Kyiv: Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, page 695
• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1987), “деревня”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 8 (девичий – дорогость), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 46
• Tymchenko, E. K. (2002) “деревня”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of 15ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Н), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 205