Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žeravľь

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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ger-, from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂ōws. Cognate with Lithuanian gérvė, Latvian dzērve, Old Prussian gerwe.

Noun edit

*žeravľь m[1][2]

  1. crane

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Declension edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жура́вль”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “жерав”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 536

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “žeravь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 558:m. jo ‘crane’
  2. ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “žerjàv”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *žeravь̏, *žeravl'ь̏