cě̑vь

cě̑vь Grammatical information: f. i Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `tube, spool'

Page in Trubačev: III 193

Russian:

kev' (Psk.) `handle of a flail' [f i] \{1\};

cevьë `fore-end (of rifle-stock), pivot' [n io]

Old Russian:

cěvь `spool' [f i];

cěvije `handle' [n io]

Old Czech:

cěv `tube, spool' [f i];

ciev `tube, spool' [f i]

Serbo-Croatian:

cȉjev `tube, spool, shin-bone' [f i]

Slovene:

cẹ̑v `tube, pipe, spool, thigh-bone, blood vessel' [f i], cẹvȋ [Gens]

Bulgarian:

cev `tube' [f i]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: koi-u-i-; ḱoi-u-i-

Indo-European reconstruction: koi-u-

Page in Pokorny: 919-920

Comments: See -> *cě̄và.

Notes:

\{1\} North Russian attestations of this root showing initial k- are presented in Nikolaev 1988: 142-143.