Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bermę

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bermen, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHmen. Cognate with Sanskrit भरीमन् (bhárīman, “supporting, nourishing”).

Noun

*bèrmę n [1][2]

load, burden

Inflection

Declension of *bèrmę (n-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*bèrmę	*bèrmeni	*bèrmenā
Accusative	*bèrmę	*bèrmeni	*bèrmenā
Genitive	*bèrmene	*bèrmenu	*bèrmenъ
Locative	*bèrmene	*bèrmenu	*bèrmenьxъ
Dative	*bèrmeni	*bèrmenьma	*bèrmenьmъ
Instrumental	*bèrmenьmь	*bèrmenьma	*bèrmenȳ
Vocative	*bèrmę	*bèrmeni	*bèrmenā

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: беремѧ (beremę)
  - Belarusian: бярэ́мя (bjarémja)
  - Russian: бере́мя (berémja) (dialectal)
  - Ukrainian: беремя (beremja)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: брѣмѧ (brěmę)
  - Bulgarian: бре́ме (bréme)
  - Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: бреме, бриме, бримен
    Latin: breme, brime, bremen
  - → Russian: бре́мя (brémja)
- Macedonian: бреме (breme)
- Slovene: bréme (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: břiemě
  - Czech: břímě
- Polish: brzemię
- Slovak: bremeno, bremä (archaic)
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: brěmje
  - Upper Sorbian: brěmjo

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bèrmę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 37: “n. n (a) ‘load, burden’”
Olander, Thomas (2001), “bermę -ene”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a byrde (NA 133, 143; SA 24; PR 132)”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bèrmę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 37: “n. n (a) ‘load, burden’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001), “bermę -ene”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a byrde (NA 133, 143; SA 24; PR 132)”