деревнꙗ

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

  • дере́внѧ (derévnę), дрв҃нꙗ (drv:nja), деревьнꙗ (derevĭnja)[1]

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dьrvьňa.

According to Pavel Chernykh, indisputable examples date back to the 14th century.[2]

  • Pavel Chernykh: “ploughed field” > “cornfield” > “house” (near a ploughed field) > “human settlement”.[2]
  • Max Vasmer: “ploughed field” > “a peasant's khutor with a plot of land” > “settlement”.[3]

Noun

дере́внꙗ (derévnja) f[4][5][2][6][7]

  1. village[7][6], field[7][6], ploughed field[3][2], cleaned space for plowing[2][6], house[2][6], not a wild field[6], a peasant's khutor with a plot of land[3], settlement[3], human settlement[2]

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: дере́внꙗ (village; lumber, timber)
    • Belarusian: дзярэ́ўня (dzjaréŭnja, village)
    • Ukrainian: дере́вня (derévnja, forest used for construction)
  • Russian: дере́вня (derévnja, village), дерёвня (derjóvnja)
  • Polish: derewnia (village)

References

  1. Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893), деревьнꙗ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 654
  2. Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), дере́вня”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 242
  3. Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), дере́вня”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
  4. Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2014), “Drevnerusskoje udarenije. Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ”, in Languages of Slavic Culture (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 598: “дере́вня”
  5. Zaliznyak, Andrey A. (2019), дере́вня”, in Древнерусское ударение: Общие сведения и словарь [Old East Slavic accent: General Information and Dictionary] (in Russian), 2nd, expanded and revised edition, Moscow: Publishing House “YASK”, →DOI, →ISBN, page 706
  6. Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1977), деревнꙗ”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ – 17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 4 (г – дяфинъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 220
  7. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dьrvьņa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 136

Old Ruthenian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic дере́внꙗ (derévnja), from Proto-Slavic *dьrvьňa. Cognate with Russian дере́вня (derévnja).

Noun

дере́внꙗ (transliteration needed) f inan

  1. village
  2. lumber, timber used for construction

Descendants

  • Belarusian: дзярэ́ўня (dzjaréŭnja, village)
  • Ukrainian: дере́вня (derévnja, forest used for construction)

Further reading

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