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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/otъverzti

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

Alternative forms

  • *otverzti

Etymology

From *otъ- + *verzti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *verź-, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ-. Cognate with Lithuanian ver̃žti (to string, to squeeze, to tighten), Old High German wurgen (to strangle).

Verb

*otъverzti

  1. to open

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: отъврезти (otŭvrezti)
      • Russian: poetic отве́рзть (otvérztʹ)
      • Ukrainian: (отве́рзтися (otvérztysja))
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: отъвьрзати (otŭvĭrzati), отъврѣщи (otŭvrěšti)
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: отвъ́ржа (otvǎ́rža)
    • Macedonian: одврже (odvrže), одврзе (odvrze) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: одвр́сти (Karadzić's dictionary)
      Latin: odvŕsti

Further reading

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), отве́рстие”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN
  • Derksen, Rick (2008), *ot(ъ)verzti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 383
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), -верза́ть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
  • Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2014), *otъverzti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 39 (*otъtęti – *ozgǫba), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 69
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