Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vojevoda

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *voji (“army”) +‎ *voditi (“to lead”). Compare Old High German herizogo, Latin dux.

Noun

*vojevoda m

army leader, warlord, duke

Declension

Declension of *vojevoda (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*vojevoda	*vojevodě	*vojevody
Accusative	*vojevodǫ	*vojevodě	*vojevody
Genitive	*vojevody	*vojevodu	*vojevodъ
Locative	*vojevodě	*vojevodu	vojevodasъ, vojevodaxъ^*
Dative	*vojevodě	*vojevodama	*vojevodamъ
Instrumental	vojevodojǫ, vojevodǫ^**	*vojevodama	*vojevodami
Vocative	*vojevodo	*vojevodě	*vojevody

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: ваяво́да (vajavóda)
- Russian: воево́да (vojevóda)
- Ukrainian: воєво́да (vojevóda)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: воѥвода (vojevoda)
- Bulgarian: войво́да (vojvóda)
- Macedonian: војвода (vojvoda)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: во̀јвода (> Војводина)
  Latin: vòjvoda (> Vojvodina)
  - → English: Vojvodina
- Slovene: vọ̑jvoda (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: vévoda
- Polabian: våjvåda
- Polish: wojewoda
- Slovak: vojvoda

Non-Slavic:

→ English: voivode
→ Hungarian: vajda
→ Romanian: voievod
→ Ottoman Turkish: ویوده‎ (voyvoda, vayvoda)
- Turkish: voyvoda, vayvoda