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Verb
вельми • (veľmi)
- third-person singular present/future indicative of вельмемс (veľmems)
Old Church Slavonic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *velьmi. Cognates include Serbo-Croatian veoma, Slovak veľmi, Czech velmi, Belarusian вельмі (vjelʹmi), Ukrainian вельми (velʹmy) and Polish wielmi.
Adverb
вельми • (velĭmi)
- very, very much
- Synonyms: мъногꙑ (mŭnogy), мъного (mŭnogo), ꙃѣло (dzělo), вьсьма (vĭsĭma), тврьдѣ (tvrĭdě)
- strongly, loudly
- from Похвала прѣдивьнаего пророка Илии by Clement of Ohrid:
И рѫгаше сѧ имъ илиꙗ и рече· вельми оубо ꙁовѣте· еда бѫдѫтъ ꙁасъпали боꙃи ваши·- I rǫgaše sę imŭ ilija i reče· velĭmi ubo zověte· eda bǫdǫtŭ zasŭpali bodzi vaši·
- Iliyah ridiculed them and said, precisely strongly call out, will your Gods really have fallen asleep?
Related terms
References
- Бояджиев, Андрей (2016) Старобългарска читанка, София
Old East Slavic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *velьmi.
Pronunciation
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ʋɛlɪˈmi/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ʋʲɛlʲɪˈmʲi/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ʋʲɛːlʲˈmʲi/
- Hyphenation: ве‧ль‧ми
Adverb
вельми (velĭmi)
- very, very much
Descendants
References
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “вельми, велми”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, велми column 240
- Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2014) “Drevnerusskoje udarenije. Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ”, in Languages of Slavic Culture (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 249
Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *velьmi.
Pronunciation
Adverb
вельми́ • (velʹmí)
- (archaic) very, much, very much
- Synonyms: о́чень (óčenʹ), весьма́ (vesʹmá)
Ukrainian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish wielmi, from Proto-Slavic *velьmi. Replaced native Old East Slavic вельми (velĭmi), which would've produced **вільми (**vilʹmy).
Cognate with Belarusian ве́льмі (vjélʹmi).
Pronunciation
Adverb
ве́льми • (vélʹmy)
- very, much, very much
Further reading
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “ве́льми”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 348
- Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1907–1909), “ве́льми”, in Словарь украинского языка [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), Kyiv: Kievskaya starina
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “ве́льми”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “ве́льми”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 3 (відстава́ння – ґура́льня), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN