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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/veťь
Proto-Slavic
Alternative forms
- *věťь
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wektís, from Proto-Indo-European *wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s, from *wekʷ- (“to speak”).
Noun
*vȅťь f[1]
- thing
Inflection
Declension of *vȅťь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *vȅťь | *vȅťi | *vȅťi |
Accusative | *vȅťь | *vȅťi | *vȅťi |
Genitive | *veťí | *veťьjù, *veťu* | *veťь̀jь |
Locative | *veťí | *veťьjù, *veťu* | *vȅťьxъ |
Dative | *vȅťi | *veťьmà | *vȅťьmъ |
Instrumental | *veťьjǫ́ | *veťьmà | *veťьmì |
Vocative | *veťi | *vȅťi | *vȅťi |
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
See also
- *rěčь (< *reťi (“to speak, say”))
- *věkъ, *věčьnъ
- *věščь (< *vědtjь)
- *větъ
Derived terms
- *veťьnъ
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: вещь (veštĭ)
- Bulgarian: вещ (vešt)
- → Old East Slavic: вещь (veščĭ)
- Russian: вещь (veščʹ)
- → Kildin Sami: ве̄шшь (v’ēšš’)
- Russian: вещь (veščʹ)
- Old Cyrillic: вещь (veštĭ)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: věc
- Czech: věc
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): věc
- Czech: věc
- Slovak: vec
- Polish: wiec
- Kashubian: wiec
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: wěc
- Lower Sorbian: wěc
- Old Czech: věc
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “вещь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “вещь”, 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 148
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “вещь”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893), “вещь, вешть”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1: А – К, Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, вешть column 252
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “vektь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c ting (PR 138)”