Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dьrvьňa

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From a not directly retained *dьrva +‎ *-ьňa inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dirˀwāˀ kept by Latvian dìrva, Lithuanian dirvà (“arable land, field”), further derived from Proto-Indo-European *dérH-uh₂ ~ *dr̥H-wéh₂, from the root Proto-Indo-European *derH- (“to tear, crack”), to which also Sanskrit दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “panic grass”), Proto-West Germanic *taru (“wheat”), Welsh drewg (“darnel”) are put.

For the meaning development from “field” to “village” typologically compare the attested development, without collectivizing suffix *-ьňa making the derivation more straightforward, of Ge'ez ፂኦት (ṣ́iʾot, “low grounds, pasture”, its only meanings) into Arabic ضَيْعَة (ḍayʕa, “pasture; village, hamlet”) and in the end Galician aldea (“village”), Spanish aldea (“village”), Portuguese aldeia (“village”). The reverse shift, the designation of a village from enclosed space instead of from a wide space, is equally known in the languages of the world: Proto-Turkic *āgïl means originally a “pen, fold for cattle”, so usual in Anatolian Turkic, but gives the word for village, aul, in Central Asian Turkic, see it for its descendants. Similarly Proto-Slavic *gordъ (“town”) derives from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gardas (“enclosure”).

*dьrvьňa f^[1]

1. ploughed field, arable land (after trees were cut) (the original sense, unless the suffigation directly gave the next sense)
2. a peasant's khutor with a plot of land; settlement, village

• *derti (“to tear”)
• *dorъ (“cleansed land”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: деревьнꙗ (derevĭnja), деревнѧ (derevnę), дрв҃нꙗ (drv:nja), деревнꙗ (derevnja)
    • ⇒ Old East Slavic: деревнꙗ (derevnja)
      • Old Ruthenian: дере́внꙗ (derévnja, “village; lumber, timber”)
        • Belarusian: дзярэ́ўня (dzjaréŭnja, “village”)
        • Ukrainian: дере́вня (derévnja, “forest used for construction”)
      • Russian: дере́вня (derévnja, “village”), дерёвня (derjóvnja) — dialectal or slang
        • → Kazakh: деревня (derevnä)
        • → Komi-Yazva: диревня (ďirevńa)
        • → Kyrgyz: деревня (derevnya)
        • → Southern Altai: деремне (deremne)
        • → Yakut: дэриэбинэ (deriebine)
      • → Polish: derewnia (“village”)
      • ⇒ Old East Slavic: деревеньскъ (derevenĭskŭ)
      • ⇒ Old East Slavic: деревенька (derevenĭka)

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