Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/veťь

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 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.

Proto-Slavic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wektís, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s, from *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *wihtiz.

Noun

*vȅťь f

  1. thing

Inflection

Declension of *vȅťь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *vȅťь *vȅťi *vȅťi
genitive *veťí *veťьjù, *veťu* *veťь̀jь
dative *vȅťi *veťьmà *vȅťьmъ
accusative *vȅťь *vȅťi *vȅťi
instrumental *veťьjǫ́ *veťьmà *veťьmì
locative *veťí *veťьjù, *veťu* *vȅťьxъ
vocative *veťi *vȅťi *vȅťi

* 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).

See also

Derived terms

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: вещь (veštĭ)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вещь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “вещь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 148
  • Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “вещь”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “вещь, вешть”, 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 252

References

  1. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “vektь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c ting (PR 138)”
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