bèrdjь

bèrdjь Grammatical information: adj. jo Accent paradigm: a Proto-Slavic meaning: `with young, pregnant'

Page in Trubačev: I 188-189

Church Slavic:

brěžda `pregnant' [Nomsgf];

brěž(d)a (RuCS) `pregnant' [Nomsgf]

Russian:

beréžaja (dial.) `in foal' [Nomsgf];

berëžaja (dial.) `mare in foal' [Nomsgf]

Ukrainian:

beréža `with young' [Nomsgf]

Czech:

březí `with young, pregnant' [Nomsgf]

Old Czech:

břězí `with young, pregnant' [Nomsgf]

Serbo-Croatian:

brȅđ (W. dial.) `pregnant, (Cr.) in calf' [adj jo];

Čak. brȅja (Orbanići) `pregnant (of a cow), with young' [Nomsgf]

Slovene:

brẹ́ja `with young' [Nomsgf]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: berʔdios

Lithuanian:

ber̃(g)ždžias `barren (of a cow)' [adj] 4;

ber(g)ždė̃ `barren cow' [f ē]

Indo-European reconstruction: bʰerdieh₂

IE meaning: pregnant

Comments: Both *bʰerdʰieh₂ and *bʰerHdʰieh₂ would have yielded forba in Latin (see Nussbaum 1999 for the development of *rdʰ originating from syncope). A proto-form *bʰerHdieh₂ would therefore theoretically be possible. Nussbaum, who considers the connection with OCS brěžda possible, suggests that an original noun *bʰori- > *fori `birther' was expanded to *fori-d- and then hypercharacterized as a feminine (1999: 406).

Other cognates:

Lat. forda `in calf' [Nomsgf]