Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věnьcь

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *waiˀníkas, from Proto-Indo-European *woyh₁níkos.

See also Lithuanian vainikas (“garland”), Latvian vainags (“crown, wreath”), vaîņuks (dialectal) (cognate with Proto-Slavic *věnъkъ).

*věnь̀cь m^[1]

1. wreath, garland

• *věnikъ (< PBSl *wainеikas)
• *věnъkъ (< PBSl *wainukas)

• *věnьčati (“to put wreath onto, to merry”)
• *věnьčidlo (“wedding ceremony”)

• *viti (“to twist, to turn, to wind”)
• *věja, *vějьka (“twig”)
• *věňe (“branch”)
• *větь (“sapling”), *větvь (“sallow”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вѣньць (věnĭcĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: вѣнець (věnecʹ) (Old Ukrainian),^[2] вѣнецъ (věnecʹ) (Old Belarusian)^[3]
      • Belarusian: вене́ц (vjenjéc)
      • Ukrainian: віне́ць (vinécʹ)
    • Russian: вене́ц (venéc)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: вѣньць (věnĭcĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰲⱑⱀⱐⱌⱐ (věnĭcĭ)

  • Bulgarian: вене́ц (venéc, “wreath; rim, oral gum”)
  • Macedonian: венец (venec)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ве́нац

    Latin script: vénac

  • Slovene: vénəc (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: věnec
    • Czech: věnec
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): věnec
  • Old Polish: wieniec
    • Polish: wieniec
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: wińc
  • Slovak: venec
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wěnc
    • Upper Sorbian: wěnc

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “венец”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “венец”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 133