Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vermę
Proto-SlavicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wer(t)men/*wer(t)min, from Proto-Indo-European *wértmn̥ (“revolution”), a -men-stem derivative of *wert- (“to turn”). Cognate with Sanskrit वर्त्मन् (vártman, “track, course”). Probably[1] originally meant “period (of time)”, undergoing a similar sematic shift as French temps (“time”) from Latin tempus (“period”).
NounEdit
DeclensionEdit
Declension of *vermę (n-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *vermę | *vȇrmeni | *vermenà |
Accusative | *vermę | *vȇrmeni | *vermenà |
Genitive | *vȇrmene | *vermenù | *vermènъ |
Locative | *vȇrmene | *vermenù | *vermènьxъ |
Dative | *vȇrmeni | *vermenьmà | *vermènьmъ |
Instrumental | *vȇrmenьmь | *vermenьmà | *vermený |
Vocative | *vermę | *vȇrmeni | *vermenà |
Derived termsEdit
- *bezvermьje (“timelessness”)
- *vermenьnъ (“temporary”)
- *vermevъ (“temporal”)
- *vermena dьne (“times of day”)
- *vermena goda (“seasons”)
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Non-Slavic languages:
- → Romanian: vreme
Further readingEdit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “время”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “време”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 185
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Snoj, Marko (2016), “vreme”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *vermę̋, rod. *vȇrmene”
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vermę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 516
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001), “vermę vermene”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 199; PR 138; MP 20, 25)”