vodà

vodà Grammatical information: f. ā Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `water'

Old Church Slavic:

voda `water' [f ā]

Russian:

vodá `water' [f ā], vódu [Accs]

Czech:

voda `water' [f ā]

Slovak:

voda `water' [f ā]

Polish:

woda `water' [f ā]

Serbo-Croatian:

vòda `water' [f ā], vȍdu [Accs];

Čak. vodȁ (Vrgada, Novi, Hvar) `water' [f ā], vȍdu [Accs];

Čak. vodȁ (Orbanići) `water' [f ā], vȍdo [Accs]

Slovene:

vóda `water' [f ā]

Bulgarian:

vodá `water' [f ā]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: u̯ondōr

Lithuanian:

vanduõ `water' [m n] 3^a

Latvian:

ûdens `water' [m o]

Old Prussian:

wundan `water';

unds `water'

Indo-European reconstruction: The origin of *vodà is the heteroclitic noun *uod-r/n- `water'. The fact that the etymon was not affected by Winter's law calls for an explanation. Kortlandt (1979: 60-61, cf. 1988: 388-389) claims that the vocalism of *voda continues the Gsg. *(v)undnes of a Balto-Slavic noun *vondōr, with a nasal infix originating from a suffix, as in Latv. unda (cf. Thurneysen 1883). The sequence ndn blocked Winter's law (cf. the regular acute in Lith. vanduõ). The vocalism *vod- arose in Proto-Slavic when *un was lowered before a tautosyllabic stop, which development was followed by the dissimilatory loss of the *n (cf. -> *ogn'ь).

Other cognates:

Skt. udán- (RV+) `water' [n];

Hitt. u̯ātar `water' [n], u̯etenas [Gens];

Gk. ὕδωρ `water' [n];

Lat. unda `wave' [f];

Go. wato `water' [n];

OS watar `water' [n];

OIc. vatn `water' [n]