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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vorxъ

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 Proto-Indo-European *wers-. Cognates include Latvian vârsms (“grain spread out for threshing, pile of sieved grain”), Latin verrō (“to drag, to sweep”) (infinitive verrere), Ancient Greek ἔρρω (érrhō, “to walk with difficulty, to limp, to trudge”), Old High German wërran (“to confuse”).

Noun

*vorxъ m

  1. heap?, pile?

Inflection
Declension of *vorxъ (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *vorxъ *vorxa *vorśi
genitive *vorxa *vorxu *vorxъ
dative *vorxu *vorxoma *vorxomъ
accusative *vorxъ *vorxa *vorxy
instrumental *vorxъmь, *vorxomь* *vorxoma *vorxy
locative *vorśě *vorxu *vorśěxъ
vocative *vorše *vorxa *vorśi
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: во́рох (vórox, “noise”)
    • Russian: во́рох (vórox)
    • Ukrainian: во́рох (vórox)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: врахъ (vraxŭ)
    • Bulgarian: врах (vrah) (dialectal)
  • West Slavic:
    • Polish: zawroch

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