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Related to *zmьja and ultimately *zemľa, reflecting an original meaning of "animal which lives in the ground". [1]"eats from the earth or eats the earth"
For the semantic development within Indo-European, compare Kamkata-viribabístë, bibímstë(“snake”) < earlier *pa-bǘm stë(“being in the ground”).
^ Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “змия”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 648
^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zmь̀jь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 545