ledva

ed(ъ)và; ledva Grammatical information: adv./conj. Proto-Slavic meaning: `hardly, only just'

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Old Church Slavic:

jedъva `hardly, only just' [adv/conj];

(j)edva (Supr.) `hardly, only just' [adv/conj]

Russian:

jedvá `hardly, only just' [adv/conj];

odvá (dial.) `hardly, only just' [adv/conj];

lédva `hardly, only just' [adv/conj];

lédvé (dial.) `hardly, only just' [adv/conj]

Old Russian:

odъva `hardly, only just' [adv/conj];

odva `hardly, only just' [adv/conj]

Czech:

jedva `hardly, only just' [adv];

ledva (dial.) `hardly, only just' [adv/conj]

Slovak:

ledva `hardly, only just' [adv];

ledvo (dial.) `hardly, only just' [adv]

Polish:

ledwo `hardly, only just' [adv];

ledwie `hardly, only just' [adv]

Old Polish:

jedwo `hardly, only just' [adv];

jedwa `hardly, only just' [adv]

Upper Sorbian:

lědma (dial.) `hardly, only just' [adv/conj]

Serbo-Croatian:

jèdva `hardly, only just' [adv];

Čak. jedvȁ (Vrgada) `hardly, only just' [adv]

Slovene:

jèdva `hardly, only just' [adv];

jèdvaj `hardly, only just' [adv];

odvaj `hardly, only just' [adv];

odvo `hardly, only just' [adv]

Bulgarian:

edvá(m) `hardly, only just' [adv];

odva(j) (dial.) `hardly, only just' [adv]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: edvaHs

Lithuanian:

võs `hardly' [adv] \{2\}

Indo-European reconstruction: h₁edʰ-ueh₂-s

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Notes:

\{1\} There is an isolated form odъva. \{2\} Lith. adva (a.o. Bretke, Sirvydas) is considered a borrowing from Belorussian. I have not been able to find a form with o- in the latter language but we do have ORu./Ru. (dial.) odva. The dialect form advõs is probably a blend of võs and a Slavic adverb odva .