Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/(j)edъva

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.

The first element is possibly the same as in *edinъ (see there for more). For *-va, confer Bulgarian дава́ (davá, “probably, perhaps”) and Czech sotva. Furthermore, cognate with Lithuanian võs (“hardly”), vos ne vos (“scarcely”).

Variations with l- possibly contain a particle *le (see еле).

*(j)edъva

1. barely, scarcely

• East Slavic:
  • ⇒ Belarusian: ледзь (ljedzʹ), ледзьве (ljedzʹvje)
  • Russian: едва́ (jedvá)
  • ⇒ Ukrainian: ледь (ledʹ), ле́две (lédve)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ѥдва (jedva), ѥдъва (jedŭva)
  • Bulgarian: едва́ (edvá)
  • Macedonian: едвај (edvaj), одвај (odvaj)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: је̏два

    Latin script: jȅdva

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jedva
    • Czech: jedva, ledva
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): jedva
  • ⇒ Old Polish: jedwo, ledwo
    • Polish: ledwo
      • ⇒ Polish: ledwie
  • ⇒ Kashubian: ledvje, ledwœ (Ramułt's dictionary)
  • Old Slovak: ledva, ledve, ledvo, ledvom, ledvy
    • Pannonian Rusyn: лєдво (ljedvo)
    • Slovak: ledva
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: lědba
    • Upper Sorbian: lědma

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “едва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress