Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vermę

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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-SlavicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *werˀtmen or *werˀtmin, from Proto-Indo-European *wértmn̥, from the root *wert- (“to turn”). Cognate with Sanskrit वर्त्मन् (vártman, “track, course”).

NounEdit

*vermę n

time

DeclensionEdit

Declension of *vermę (n-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*vermę	*vermeni	*vermena
Accusative	*vermę	*vermeni	*vermena
Genitive	*vermene	*vermenu	*vermenъ
Locative	*vermene	*vermenu	*vermenьxъ
Dative	*vermeni	*vermenьma	*vermenьmъ
Instrumental	*vermenьmь	*vermenьma	*vermeny
Vocative	*vermę	*vermeni	*vermena

Derived termsEdit

*bezvermьje (“timelessness”)
*vermena dьne (“times of day”)
*vermena goda (“seasons”)

Related termsEdit

*verteno (“spindle”)
*vorta (“door, gate”)
*vortiti (“to turn, to return”)
*vьrsta, *vьrstva (“row, line, age, kind”)
*vьrtěti (“to turn”)

DescendantsEdit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: веремѧ (veremę)
  - Belarusian: ве́реме (vjérjemje) (obsolete)
  - Ukrainian: ве́рем'я (véremʺja) (obsolete)

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Glagolitic: ⰲⱃⱑⰿⱔ (vrěmę)
  
  Old Cyrillic: врѣмѧ (vrěmę)
  - → Belarusian: урэ́мя (urémja) (obsolete)
  - → Russian: вре́мя (vrémja)
  - → Ukrainian: уре́м'я (urémʺja)/уре́мня (urémnja)/ве́ремє (véremje) (obsolete)
- Bulgarian: вре́ме (vréme)
- Macedonian: време (vreme)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: врије́ме, вре́ме, ври́ме
  
  Latin: vrijéme, vréme, vríme
- Slovene: vréme

West Slavic:
- Old Polish: wrzemię
- Old Czech: vřémě

Non-Slavic languages:
- → Romanian: vreme