Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/arьmo

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join”). Morphologically *ar- +‎ *-ьmo.

Noun

*arьmò n

1. yoke, ox yoke

Inflection

Declension of *ārьmò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ārьmò	*arь̀mě	*ārьmà
genitive	*ārьmà	*ārьmù	*arь̀mъ
dative	*ārьmù	*ārьmòma	*ārьmòmъ
accusative	*ārьmò	*arь̀mě	*ārьmà
instrumental	*ārьmъ̀mь, *ārьmòmь*	*ārьmòma	*arь̀my
locative	*ārьmě̀	*ārьmù	*arь̀měxъ
vocative	*ārьmò	*arь̀mě	*ārьmà

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Alternative forms

• *arь̀mъ

See also

• *ormę
• *orьmo

Derived terms

• *arьmiti
• *arьmьnъ
• *arьmьnikъ

Related terms

• *kojariti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ꙗрьмъ (jarĭmŭ), ꙗръмъ (jarŭmŭ)
    • Belarusian: ярмо́ (jarmó), яруом (jaruóm)
    • Russian: ярмо́ (jarmó), армо́ (armó), ярём (jarjóm), яре́мь (jarémʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ярмо́ (jarmó), йа́рмо́ (jármó), ярем (jarem)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: ꙗрьмъ (jarĭmŭ)

    • Bulgarian: яре́м (jarém), ере́м (erém)
    • Macedonian: јарем (jarem)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ја́рам, јерам

    Latin script: járam

  • Slovene: járəm (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: jařmo, jarmo
  • Kashubian: jirzmo, jerzmo
  • Old Polish: jarzmo, jerzmo, jirzmo
    • Polish: jarzmo, jarmo (dialectal)
  • Slovak: jarmo, járom
  • → Hungarian: járom

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*arьmo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 76
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*arьmъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 77