Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zveno

• *zъveno (Smoczyński)

Dubious. At a surface level, resembles an instrumental noun of hypothetical *zuti ~ *zъvati +‎ *-eno, however, no attested root with this structure correlates semantically with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). Proposed alternatives within the scholarly discourse include:

• Per Mikkola: Metathesis of an earlier *zenvo (or perhaps *znevo) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu ~ *ǵnéws (“knee”).
• Per Vaillant, Smoczyński: Perhaps a substantivation of a relic adjective *zy (“fish”) (unattested) +‎ *-enъ, near cognate with Lithuanian žuvìnis (“of fish”), žvýnė (“fish dish”), Latvian zviņi (“of fish”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰu-).

*zvenò n[1]

1. junction, nexus, link (East, South Slavic)
2. wheel rim (West Slavic)

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• East Slavic:
  • Russian: звено́ (zvenó)
  • Ukrainian: звено́ (zvenó)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: звено́ (zvenó) (possibly a Russian borrowing)
• West Slavic:
  • Polabian: zvenü
  • Old Polish: zwono
    • Polish: dzwono, dzwonko (pl)
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: zwjeno

    Upper Sorbian: zwjeno

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “звено”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “звено”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 622
• “žuvis”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012