Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/virъ

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wīr-, ultimately from the root of *vьrěti (“to boil”).

Cognate with Lithuanian vỹris, vỹrius (“whirlpool”), Latvian virags.

Noun

*virъ m

1. whirlpool

Declension

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: виръ (virŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: виръ (vir)
      • Belarusian: вір (vir)
      • Ukrainian: вир (vyr)
    • Russian: вир (vir)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: вир (vir)
  • Macedonian: вир (vir)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ви̑р

    Latin script: vȋr

  • Slovene: vȋr (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vír
    • Czech: vír
  • Old Polish: wir
    • Polish: wir
  • Slovak: vír

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 522
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вир”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “вир”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka