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Old East Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *větridlo. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic вѣтрило (větrilo).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʋeːˈtrilɔ/→/ʋʲeːˈtrʲilɔ/→/ʋʲeːˈtrʲilɔ/
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ʋeːˈtrilɔ/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ʋʲeːˈtrʲilɔ/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ʋʲeːˈtrʲilɔ/
Noun
вѣтрило (větrilo) n
- sail
1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik, page 4:красота воиноу ороужиѥ· и кораблѫ вѣтрила· тако и правьдникоу почитание книжьноѥ·- krasota voinu oružije· i korablǫ větrila· tako i pravĭdniku počitanije knižĭnoje·
- To a warrior his weapon is a virtue, and to a ship its sails; and in the same way the reading of books to a righteous person.
Declension
Descendants
References
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “вѣтрило”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 497