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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vějati
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Reanalyzed from an earlier athematic *věti, inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wḗˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wḗh₁ti, from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄημι (áēmi), Proto-Germanic *wēaną, Sanskrit वाति (vā́ti).
Verb
*vě̀jati[1][2][3]
- to blow (of wind), to winnow
Alternative forms
- *věti (athematic proto-form)
Inflection
Conjugation of *vějati, *věja, *vějetь (?, -ja/V-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *vějanьje | *vějati | *vějatъ | *vějalъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *vějanъ | *vějemъ |
| Active | *vějavъ | *věję |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *vějaxъ | *věja | *věja | *vějǫ | *věješi | *vějetь |
| Dual | *vějaxově | *vějasta | *vějaste | *vějevě | *vějeta | *vějete |
| Plural | *vějaxomъ | *vějaste | *vějašę | *vějemъ | *vějete | *vějǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *vějaaxъ | *vějaaše | *vějaaše | — | *věji | *věji |
| Dual | *vějaaxově | *vějaašeta | *vějaašete | *vějivě | *vějita | — |
| Plural | *vějaaxomъ | *vějaašete | *vějaaxǫ | *vějimъ | *vějite | — |
Derived terms
- *jьzvějati (“to blow away”)
- *navějati (“to drift, to form by blowing”)
- *obvějati (“to wind up”)
- *orzvějati (“to whirl around”)
- *povějati (“to whiff”)
- *privějati (“to gale (out of nowhere)”)
- *vъvějati (“to wind into”)
- *zavějati (“to start blowing”)
Related terms
- *větrъ (“wind”)
- *vijelica (“gale, blizzard”)
- *navějь (“ripple (formed by the wind)”)
- *povějь (“whiff”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: вѣꙗти (vějati)
- Belarusian: ве́яць (vjéjacʹ)
- Russian: ве́ять (véjatʹ)
- Ukrainian: ві́яти (víjaty)
- Old East Slavic: вѣꙗти (vějati)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: вѣꙗти (vějati)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: ве́я (véja)
- Macedonian: вее (vee)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ве̏јати
- Latin: vȅjati
- Slovene: vẹ́ti (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: vát
- Polish: wiać
- Silesian: wiŏć
- Slovak: viať
- Slovincian: vjìejä, vjåuc
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “веять”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “веять”, 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 149
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “вея”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 141
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vě̀jati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 519: “v. (a) ‘blow (of wind), winnow’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “věti: vějǫ vějetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 204, 207; PR 133; MP 23)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “vẹ́ti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*vě̋ti in *vě̋jati, sed. *vě̋jǫ”