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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žeravľь

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-Balto-Slavic *ger-, from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂ōws. Cognate with Lithuanian gérvė, Latvian dzērve, Old Prussian gerwe.

Noun

*žeravľь m[1][2]

  1. crane

Alternative forms

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: журавь (žuravĭ), жеравль (žeravlĭ)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “žeravь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558: “m. jo ‘crane’”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), žerjàv”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *žeravь̏, *žeravl'ь̏”
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