Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zьrcadlo

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.

• *zьrkadlo

From *zьrkati +‎ *-dlo, a calque of Latin speculum.

*zьrcadlo n

1. mirror, looking-glass

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: зе́ркало (zérkalo)
    • Ukrainian: дзе́ркало (dzérkalo)
  • Russian: зерца́ло (zercálo) (dated, poetic), зе́ркало (zérkalo)
    • → Karelian: zirkalo
    • → Kildin Sami: зе̄ркал (zierkal)
    • → Yakut: сиэркилэ (sierkile)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: зрьцало (zrĭcalo)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зр̀цало

    Latin script: zr̀calo

  • Slovene: zrcálo, zrkálo, zŕkalo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: zrcadlo, zrcadło (alternative writing)
    • Czech: zrcadlo
  • Polabian: zarḱódlü
  • Old Polish: wierciadło, źwierciadło, źwierzciadło, źwirciadło
    • Polish: zwierciadło (literary, poetic)
  • Slovak: zrkadlo

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