vědrò

vědrò Grammatical information: n. o Accent paradigm: b Proto-Slavic meaning: `bucket'

Old Church Slavic:

vědro (Euch., Supr.) `barrel' [n o]

Russian:

vedró `bucket' [n o]

Czech:

vědro `bucket' [n o]

Slovak:

vedro `bucket' [n o]

Polish:

wiadro `bucket' [n o]

Serbo-Croatian:

vjèdro `bucket' [n o];

vijèdro (Montenegro) `bucket' [n o];

Čak. vȉdro (Vrgada) `bucket' [n o]

Slovene:

vẹ́drọ `bucket' [n o]

Bulgarian:

vedró `bucket' [n o]

Lithuanian:

vė́daras `sausage, (dial.) belly, intestines' [m o] 3^a

Latvian:

vę̂dars `belly' [m o]

Old Prussian:

weders (EV) `belly, stomach'

Indo-European reconstruction: ued-róm

Comments: There are basically two etymologies for this noun. According to, among others, Meillet (1902-1905: 407-408) and Vasmer, *vědrò derives from the root of *uod-r/n- `water', cf. Gk. ὑδρία `water-pot, pitcher, vessel'. The other option is to connect the word for `bucket' with forms meaning `belly'. I prefer the latter etymology. In both cases the long vowel of the root can be attributed to Winter's law, which at first sight is incompatible with AP (b). In my framework, however, it is possible to assume that in Proto-Slavic the reflex of the laryngeal was lost in pretonic position (the sequence -dr- prevented the Balto-Slavic retraction of the stress from final open syllables). The remaining problem is the fact that the evidence points almost exclusively to a short root vowel, as words of the aforementioned type as a rule appear to have escaped the pretonic shortening that took place before Dybo's law.

Other cognates:

Skt. udára- `belly, womb' [n];

Gk. ὕδερος

`dropsy' [m];

Gk. ὅδερος γαστήρ (Hes.)

;

Lat. uterus `lower abdomen, belly, womb'

Notes:

\{1\} With unclear -t-.