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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vydra

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 *ū́ˀdrāˀ (“otter”), from Proto-Indo-European *udréh₂ (“otter”), the feminine form of *udrós (“of water, aquatic”), from the root *wed- (“water”).

Noun

*vỳdra f[1][2]

  1. otter

Inflection

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Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: вꙑ́дра (výdra)
    • Old Novgorodian: воудра (vudra)
      • → Russian: вудра́ (vudrá) (Pskov dialect)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “выдра”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “выдра”, 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 173
  • Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “выдра”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vỳdra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 534: “f. ā (a) ‘otter’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “vydra vydry”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 22; RPT 109f.)”
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