Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vezti

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 *weźtei, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

*veztì

1. to cart, lead, convey

• *veslo (“oar”)
• *voziti (“to cart, lead, convey”)
• *vozъ (“cart”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: везти (vezti)
    • Old Ruthenian: везти (vezti)
      • Belarusian: ве́зці (vjézci)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: ве́зти (vézty)
      • Ukrainian: везти́ (veztý)
    • Russian: везти́ (veztí)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⰲⰵⱄⱅⰹ (vesti)

    Old Cyrillic script: вести (vesti)

  • Bulgarian: веза́ (vezá) (obsolete)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: вѐсти

    Latin script: vèsti

  • Slovene: vẹ́sti, vésti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vézti
    • Czech: vézt
  • Old Polish: wieźć
    • Polish: wieźć
  • Slovak: viezť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wjesć
    • Lower Sorbian: wjasć

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “везу”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “везти”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 138
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “везти, везꙋ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ ‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 233