Etymograph

English

Tver

Tver comes from Russian Тверь, and goes back to Old East Slavic Тьхвѣрь.

  1. Old East SlavicmodernТьхвѣрь
  2. RussianmodernТверь
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1901Tver

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old East SlavicmodernТьхвѣрь
  2. RussianmodernТверь
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1901Tver

Earliest quotation: 1901, 1878, Anna Karenina: “No, we’ve been hunting in the Tver province. It…”

Today it means

name An oblast of Russia.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old East Slavic Тьхвѣрь / Tver