English
Srebrenica
Srebrenica comes from Serbo-Croatian srèbro ‘silver’, and goes back to Proto-Balto-Slavic *sirabras.
- Proto-Balto-Slavicc. 2000–500 BCE*sirabras‘silver’reconstructed
- Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*sьrebro‘silver’reconstructed
- Serbo-Croatianmodernsrèbro‘silver’
- Serbo-Croatian, derivedmodernSrȅbrenica
- Englishearliest quotation 2008Srebrenica
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Balto-Slavicc. 2000–500 BCE*sirabras‘silver’reconstructed
- Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*sьrebro‘silver’reconstructed
- Serbo-Croatianmodernsrèbro‘silver’
- Serbo-Croatian, derivedmodernSrȅbrenica
- Englishearliest quotation 2008Srebrenica
Earliest quotation: 2008, Ralph Peters, Never Quit the Fight: “And another Srebrenica, a Lidice, a Babi Yar .…”
Every English word from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sirabras
Today it means
name A town and municipality in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was the site of an ethnic cleansing massacre in July 1995.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Balto-Slavic *sirabras / Srebrenica