Time & numbers

time

Source:*vermęProto-Slaviccertain

South Slavic metathesis made *ver- into vrě-, so BCS vrijeme/vreme splits like any jat word; Russian took the South Slavic shape from Church Slavonic.

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English

time

Polish

czas

tʂas

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BCS script

Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
вре́мяvremja
ˈvrʲemʲəChurch Slavonic
The native East Slavic shape would be веремя.
Ukrainian
часčas
tʃasdifferent word · Proto-Slavic *časъ 'time, while'
Polish
czas
tʂasdifferent word · Proto-Slavic *časъ 'time, while'
Czech
čas
tʃasdifferent word · Proto-Slavic *časъ 'time, while'
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
vrijeme / vremeвријеме / време
ˈvrijemeinherited
Vrijeme also means 'weather'.
English
time

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Russian час “hour”Ukrainian час “time”Polish czas “time”Czech čas “time”Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian čas “moment, instant (in Bosnian and Serbian also a school lesson)”
Russian 'time' is вре́мя; 'hour' is Ukrainian годи́на, Polish godzina, Czech hodina, BCS sat.