Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/voda

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wandō, from Proto-Indo-European *wédōr, collective of PIE r/n-stem heteroclitic *wódr̥.

*vodà f

1. water

• *vydra (“otter”)
• *vodъka (“vodka”)
• *vodьnъ (“watery”)
• *vodenъ (“watery place”)
  • *vodenica (“watermill”)

• *vodica (diminutive)
• *vodьnikъ (“water spirit, washbasin”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вода (voda)
    • Old Ruthenian: вода́ (vodá)
      • Belarusian: вада́ (vadá)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: вода́ (vodá)
      • Ukrainian: вода́ (vodá)
    • Russian: вода́ (vodá)
  • Old Novgorodian: вода (voda)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⰲⱁⰴⰰ (voda)

    Old Cyrillic script: вода (voda)

    • Bulgarian: вода́ (vodá)
    • Macedonian: во́да (vóda)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: во̀да

    Latin script: vòda

    • Slavomolisano: voda
  • Slovene: vóda (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Lechitic:
    • Old Polish: woda
      • Polish: woda
      • Silesian: woda
    • Polabian: vådă
    • Pomeranian:
      • Kashubian: wòda
      • Slovincian: wôda
  • Old Czech: voda
    • Czech: voda
  • Old Slovak: voda
    • Pannonian Rusyn: вода (voda)
    • Slovak: voda
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wóda
    • Upper Sorbian: woda

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вода”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “вода”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 168