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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věstь

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *waiˀstis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéyd-ti-s. Morphologically from *věděti +‎ *-tь. Cognate with Latvian vēsts.

Noun

*vě̑stь f[1][2]

  1. message

Declension
Declension of *vě̑stь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *vě̑stь *vě̑sti *vě̑sti
genitive *věstí *věstьjù, *věsťu* *věstь̀jь
dative *vě̑sti *věstьmà *vě̑stьmъ
accusative *vě̑stь *vě̑sti *vě̑sti
instrumental *věstьjǫ́ *věstьmà *věstьmì
locative *věstí *věstьjù, *věsťu* *vě̑stьxъ
vocative *věsti *vě̑sti *vě̑sti
* 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).

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: вѣсть (věstĭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: вѣсть (věstʹ)
        • Belarusian: весць (vjescʹ)
        • Ukrainian: вість (vistʹ)
      • Russian: весть (vestʹ) (see there for further descendants)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: вѣсть (věstĭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⰲⱑⱄⱅⱐ (věstĭ)
    • Bulgarian: вест (vest)
    • Macedonian: вест (vest)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ве̑ст
      Latin script: vȇst
    • Slovene: vẹ̑st (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: věst (obsolete), zvěst
    • Kashubian: wiesc
    • Polish: wieść
    • Slovak: zvesť
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: wěsć
  • Non-Slavic:
    • → Romanian: veste (through Old Church Slavonic)

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “весть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “весть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 146
  • Anikin, A. E. (2013) “весть I”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 7 (вершь – вняться), Moscow: Russian Language Institute, →ISBN, page 32

References
  1. Olander, Thomas (2001) “věstь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. c nyhed (PR 138)”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016) “vẹ̑st”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*vě̑stь”
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