Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vьčera

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 *weker- (whence Latvian vakar, Latgalian vakar and Lithuanian vakar). Morphologically from *vȅčerъ (“evening”).

Adverb

*vьčerà[1][2][3]

yesterday

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: вьчера (vĭčera)
  - Old Ruthenian: вчера (včera)
    - Belarusian: учо́ра (učóra), ўчо́ра (ŭčóra)
    - Rusyn: вчёра (včjora)
    - Ukrainian: учо́ра (učóra), вчо́ра (včóra)
  - Russian: вчера́ (včerá)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: вьчера (vĭčera)
  - Bulgarian: вче́ра (včéra)
- Macedonian: вчера (včera)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ју̀че̄р, ју̀че̄, вчера
  
  Latin: jùčēr, jùčē, včera
- Slovene: včẹ́raj (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: včera
  - Czech: včera
- Polabian: ceră
- Old Polish: wczora
  - Polish: wczoraj
- Slovak: včera
- Slovincian: fčerǻu̯
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: wcora (obsolete), cora
  - Upper Sorbian: wčera

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vьčera”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 536: “adv. ‘yesterday’”
Olander, Thomas (2001), “vьčera”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b i går (PR 136)”
Snoj, Marko (2016), “včẹ́raj”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*vьčerȃ”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vьčera”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 536: “adv. ‘yesterday’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001), “vьčera”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b i går (PR 136)”

[3] Snoj, Marko (2016), “včẹ́raj”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*vьčerȃ”