Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vorxъ
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *wers-. Cognates include Latvian vârsms (“grain spread out for threshing, pile of sieved grain”), Latin verrō (“to drag, to sweep”) (infinitive verrere), Ancient Greek ἔρρω (érrhō, “to walk with difficulty, to limp, to trudge”), Old High German wërran (“to confuse”).
Noun
edit*vorxъ m
Inflection
editDeclension of *vorxъ (hard o-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *vorxъ | *vorxa | *vorśi |
genitive | *vorxa | *vorxu | *vorxъ |
dative | *vorxu | *vorxoma | *vorxomъ |
accusative | *vorxъ | *vorxa | *vorxy |
instrumental | *vorxъmь, *vorxomь* | *vorxoma | *vorxy |
locative | *vorśě | *vorxu | *vorśěxъ |
vocative | *vorše | *vorxa | *vorśi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Polish: zawroch
Further reading
edit- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “во́рох”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress