Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věščьba

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věščьba

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *věščь (“proficient, foretelling”) +‎ *-ьba.

Noun

*věščьba f

1. prophecy, divination (Northern Slavic)
2. practice, drill (South Slavic)

Declension

Declension of *věščьba (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*věščьba	*věščьbě	*věščьby
Accusative	*věščьbǫ	*věščьbě	*věščьby
Genitive	*věščьby	*věščьbu	*věščьbъ
Locative	*věščьbě	*věščьbu	*věščьbasъ, *věščьbaxъ*
Dative	*věščьbě	*věščьbama	*věščьbamъ
Instrumental	*věščьbojǫ, *věščьbǫ**	*věščьbama	*věščьbami
Vocative	*věščьbo	*věščьbě	*věščьby

^* -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).

Derived terms

• *věščьbati (“to practice”) (South Slavic)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Belarusian: вѣщба (věščba)
  • Russian: вещба́ (veščbá) (dialectal)
  • Old Ukrainian: вѣщба (věščba)
• South Slavic:
  • Macedonian: вежба (vežba)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ве̏жба, вје̏жба

    Latin: vȅžba, vjȅžba

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: věštba
  • Polish: wieszczba
  • Slovak: věštba

Further reading

• Anikin, A. Je. (2013), “вещба”, in Russkij etimologičeskij slovarʹ [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), volume 7, Moscow: Institut russkovo jazyka im. V. V. Vinogradova RAN, page 91