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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/otъverti

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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *otъ- + *verti. Akin to Lithuanian atverti, Latvian atvērt.

Verb

*otъvèrti[1]

  1. to open

Inflection

Alternative forms

  • *otverti

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: отвере́ть (otverétʹ) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ода̀вријети (Vuk's dictionary)
      Latin: odàvrijeti (Vuk's dictionary)
    • Slovene: odvrẹ́ti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “отвори́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2014), “*otъverti, *otъvьrǫ (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 39 (*otъtęti – *ozgǫba), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 68

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ot(ъ)verti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 382:v. ‘open’
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