Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vьrěti

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 *wirˀ(ē)tei, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥- (“to burn”) (Černyx) or *wr̥H- (Derksen).

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian vi̇̀rti (“to boil”) (3sg. vérda), Latvian vir̂t (“to boil”) (3sg. vęr̂d).

Indo-European cognates include Hittite (urāni, “burns”)

*vьrě̀ti impf

1. to boil

• *virъ (“whirlpool”)
• *varъ
• *variti (“to boil, cook”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вьрѣти (vĭrěti)
    • Old Ruthenian: врѣти (vrěti)
      • Belarusian: врэць (vrecʹ)
      • Ukrainian: вріти (vrity)
    • Russian: вреть (vretʹ) (dated)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: вьрѣти (vĭrěti)

    Glagolitic: ⰲⱐⱃⱑⱅⰹ (vĭrěti)

  • Bulgarian: вря (vrja)
  • Macedonian: врие (vrie)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: вре̏ти

    Latin script: vrȅti

  • Slovene: vrẹ́ti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vřieti
    • Czech: vřít
  • Old Polish: wrzeć
    • Polish: wrzeć
    • Silesian: wreć
  • Slovak: vrieť

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вреть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вар”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “варить”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 134