< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/velьmi
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Perhaps, related to *velьjь.
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Adverb
*velьmi
- very
Descendants
- Old East Slavic: вельми (velĭmi)
- Belarusian: ве́льмі (vjélʹmi)
- Russian: вельми́ (velʹmí) (archaic)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: вельми (velĭmi)
- Glagolitic: ⰲⰵⰾⱐⰿⰻ (velĭmi)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вѐома
- Latin: vèoma
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: velmi
- Old Polish: wielmi
- → Ukrainian: ве́льми (vélʹmy)
- Slovak: veľmi
Further reading
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*velьmi”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 515