< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věxa
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to produce”)
Noun
*věxa f
- bundle?
Declension
Declension of *věxà (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *věxà | *věśě | *věxy |
| Accusative | *věxǫ | *věśě | *věxy |
| Genitive | *věxy | *věxu | *věxъ |
| Locative | *věśě | *věxu | *věxasъ, *věxaxъ* |
| Dative | *věśě | *věxama | *věxamъ |
| Instrumental | *věxojǫ, *věxǫ** | *věxama | *věxami |
| Vocative | *věxo | *věśě | *věxy |
* -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).
** 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:
- Russian: ве́ха (véxa)
- Ukrainian: вiха́ (vixá)
- South Slavic:
- Slovene: véha (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: viech
- Czech: věch, vích, věcha
- Polish: wiecha
- Old Czech: viech
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ве́ха”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress