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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/cěvь

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 *koi-u-i-, *ḱoi-u-i-, from Proto-Indo-European *koy-w-.

Noun

*cě̑vь f[1]

  1. tube, spool

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *cěvьca
  • *cěvьje

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: цѣвь (cěvĭ)
      • Russian: кевь (kevʹ)
    • Old Novgorodian: кѣвь (kěvĭ), *кäвь (*kävĭ) (Old Pskovian)
      • Finnish: käävi, käämi
      • Estonian: kääv
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: ciev
    • Polabian: cev
    • Old Polish: cew, cyw
    • Slovak: ciev

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*cě̑vь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 77: “f. i (c) ‘tube, spool’”
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