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

Etymology

By surface analysis, *otъ- +‎ *verzti.

Verb

*otъverzti pf[1]

  1. to untie

Inflection

Alternative reconstructions

  • *otverzti

Derived terms

  • *otъvьrztьje (aperture)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: отъврезти (otŭvrezti)
      • Russian: отве́рзть (otvérztʹ) (poetic)
      • Ukrainian: отве́рзтися (otvérztysja)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: отъврѣсти (otŭvrěsti)
    • Bulgarian: отвъ́ржа (otvǎ́rža)
    • Macedonian: одврже (odvrže) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: одвр́сти (Karadzić's dictionary)
      Latin script: odvŕsti

References

  1. ^ 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, page 383

Further reading

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999), “отве́рстие”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 610
  • Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2014), “*otъverzti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 39 (*otъtęti – *ozgǫba), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 69