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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/voliti
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Proto-Slavic
Alternative forms
- *volěti
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *walīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *wolh₁-éye-ti, causative of *welh₁- (“to choose, want”). Synchronically equivalent to *voľa (“will”) + *-iti. Cognate to Proto-Germanic *waljaną (“to will”), Sanskrit वरयति (varáyati, “to choose”).
Verb
*volìti[1]
- (transitive) to wish, to will
- Synonyms: *želěti, *xъtěti
- (transitive) to choose, to express preference
- Synonyms: *jьzbьrati, *vybьrati
Inflection
Conjugation of *voliti, *voli, *volitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Suffix: *-iti
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *voľenьje | *voliti | *volitъ | *volilъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *voľenъ | *volimъ |
| Active | *voľь | *volę |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *volixъ | *voli | *voli | *voľǫ | *voliši | *volitь |
| Dual | *volixově | *volista | *voliste | *volivě | *volita | *volite |
| Plural | *volixomъ | *voliste | *volišę | *volimъ | *volite | *volętь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *voľaaxъ | *voľaaše | *voľaaše | — | *voli | *voli |
| Dual | *voľaaxově | *voľaašeta | *voľaašete | *volivě | *volita | — |
| Plural | *voľaaxomъ | *voľaašete | *voľaaxǫ | *volimъ | *volite | — |
- Notes:
- (*)*volivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
Related terms
noun
- *vòľa
verb
- *dovьlěti
- *velě̀ti
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: волити (voliti)
- Russian: волить (volitʹ)
- Ukrainian: во́лити (vólyty)
- Old East Slavic: волити (voliti)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: волити (voliti)
- Bulgarian: во́ля (vólja), во́лим (vólim) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: во̀љети, во̀лети, волити
- Latin: vòljeti, vòleti, voliti
- Slovene: vóliti (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic
- Czech: volit
- Old Polish: wolić
- Polish: woleć
- Slovak: voliť
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “волить”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “воля¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 175
References
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “voliti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *voli̋ti”