Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vędnǫti

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Per Derksen, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)wendʰ-. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *svędnǫti, Old High German swintan (“to shrink, to fade”), German schwinden (“to shrink, to fade”), Old English swindan (“to subside, to fade”).

*vę̀dnǫti impf

1. to fade, to wither

• *svędnǫti (“to wither”)
• *vǫditi

• *uvędnǫti

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вѧнѫти (vęnǫti)
    • Belarusian: вя́нуць (vjánucʹ)
    • Russian: вя́нуть (vjánutʹ)
    • Ukrainian: в'я́нути (vʺjánuty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: compare оувѩдати (uvjędati)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: ве́хна (véhna)
  • Macedonian: вене (vene)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ве̏нути

    Latin script: vȅnuti

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): vȅnuti, 2sg. vȅneš
    • Chakavian (Hvar): vȅnut, 1sg. vȅnen
  • Slovene: vẹ́niti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vadnúti
    • Czech: vadnout
  • Polish: więdnąć
  • Slovak: vädnúť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wjadnyć

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vę̀dnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 520
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вя́нуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress