Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zvonъ

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.

Pokorny reconstructs the root as Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwon- (whence Albanian zë), however Derksen holds that the root *swenh₂- (whence Latin sonus) must be considered a serious alternative.

*zvȍnъ m^[1][2][3]

1. sound

• *zvьněti (“to ring, clank”)
• *zvǫkъ, *zvękъ (“sound”)

• *zvoniti

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: звонъ (zvonŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: звонъ (zvon)
      • Belarusian: звон (zvon)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: звӱн (zvün)
      • Ukrainian: дзвін (dzvin), звін (zvin)
    • Russian: звон (zvon)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: звонъ (zvonŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰸⰲⱁⱀⱏ (zvonŭ)

    • Bulgarian: звъ́н (zvǎ́n)
    • Macedonian: ѕвон (dzvon)
    • → Romanian: zvon
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зво̏н

    Latin script: zvȍn

  • Slovene: zvọ̑n (tonal orthography)
    • Rovte dialect (Črni vrh, Idrija): zγȗən
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: zvon
    • Czech: zvon
  • Old Polish: zwon
    • Polish: dzwon
  • Old Slovak: dzvon, zvon
    • Pannonian Rusyn: дзвон (dzvon)
    • Slovak: zvon
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: zwón
    • Lower Sorbian: zwón

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Lithuanian: zvãnas
  • → Latvian: zvans

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