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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/velěti
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wel- / *welˀ-, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-. Cognate with Old Lithuanian velti (“to allow”), 1sg. velmi, Latin volō (“to want”), inf. velle, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wiljan, “to want”), English will, Sanskrit वृणाति (vṛṇā́ti, “to choose, to prefer”), Avestan 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬙𐬉 (vərəntē, “to choose, to prefer”), Welsh gwell (“better”), Ancient Greek ἔλδομαι (éldomai, “to wish”).
Verb
*velě̀ti
- to want
- to order
Inflection
Conjugation of *velěti, *velě, *velitь (?, -ě/i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm c)
Suffix: *-ěti
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
---|---|---|---|
*velěnьje | *velěti | *velětъ | *velělъ |
Participles | ||
---|---|---|
Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *velěnъ | *velimъ |
Active | *velěvъ | *velę |
Aorist | Present | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *velěxъ | *velě | *velě | *veľǫ | *veliši | *velitь |
Dual | *velěxově | *velěsta | *velěste | *velivě | *velita | *velite |
Plural | *velěxomъ | *velěste | *velěšę | *velimъ | *velite | *velętь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *velěaxъ | *velěaše | *velěaše | — | *veli | *veli |
Dual | *velěaxově | *velěašeta | *velěašete | *velivě | *velita | — |
Plural | *velěaxomъ | *velěašete | *velěaxǫ | *velimъ | *velite | — |
Related terms
- *dovьlěti (“to suffice”)
- *velìkъ, *velьkъ (“big, great”)
- *velь (“big, great”)
- *volьnъ (“free”)
- *velьmi (“very”)
- *voliti (“to wish, to choose”)
- *vòľa (“will”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: велѣти (velěti)
- Old Ruthenian: велѣти (velěti)
- Ukrainian: велі́ти (velíty)
- Russian: веле́ть (velétʹ), 1sg. велю́ (veljú), 3sg. вели́т (velít)
- Old Ruthenian: велѣти (velěti)
- Old East Slavic: велѣти (velěti)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: велѣти (velěti), 1sg. велѭ (veljǫ)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: ве́ля (vélja), ве́лям (véljam) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: 1sg. вѐлӣм (“I say”)
- Latin: 1sg. vèlīm (“I say”)
- Chakavian (Vrgada): 3sg. velĩ (“(he) says”)
- Slovene: velẹ́ti (tonal orthography), 1sg. velím (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: veleti
- Czech: velet
- Old Polish: wielić (“to command”)[1]
- Slovak: veliť
- Old Czech: veleti
References
- “Wielić”, in Słownik staropolski (in Old Polish), volume 10, Wrocław, Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, Łódź: Polish Academy of Sciences, 1990, page 161
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 514
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “веле́ть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “веле́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 139