Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/voldati

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

Etymology

Variant of *volděti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *walˀdā́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁dʰh₁-, from *h₂welh₁- (“to rule”).

Verb

*voldati

1. to rule, to reign, to govern

Inflection

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: воло́дати (volódati)
    • Belarusian: вало́даць (valódacʹ)
    • Ukrainian: воло́дати (volódaty)
  • Russian: воло́дать (volódatʹ) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: владати (vladati)

    • → Old Ruthenian: влада́ти (vladáti)
      • Belarusian: улада́ць (uladácʹ)
      • Ukrainian: влада́ти (vladáty)
    • → Russian: влада́ть (vladátʹ) (obsolete)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: вла́дати

    Latin script: vládati

  • Slovene: vlādati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vládati
    • Czech: vládat (obsolete)
    • → Old Polish: władać
      • → Old Ruthenian: влада́ти (vladáti)
        • Belarusian: улада́ць (uladácʹ)
        • Ukrainian: влада́ти (vladáty)
      • Polish: władać
  • Old Polish: włodać
  • Slovak: vládať

Further reading

• Anikin, A. E. (2014) “воло́дать”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 8 (во – вран), Moscow: Russian Language Institute, →ISBN, page 152