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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vьsь

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 *wiśis, from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-.

Akin to Latvian vìesis (visitor), Lithuanian viešis (guest). Further related to Latin vīcus (village), Proto-Germanic *wīkō (settlement), which may be the origin of Old Norse víkingr (viking). The latter was borrowed into Slavic as Proto-Slavic *vitędzь (hero, knight).

Noun

*vь̀sь f[1][2][3]

  1. hamlet, village

Declension

Derived terms

  • *vьsьcь, *vьsьka (diminutive)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: вьсь (vĭsĭ)
    • Russian: весь (vesʹ) (dated or in set expressions)
      • Russian: ве́слина (véslina), весца́ (vescá) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: вьсь (vĭsĭ)
    • Bulgarian: вес (ves), ве́сец (vésec) (historical)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ва̑с
      Latin script: vȃs
      • Kajkavian Serbo-Croatian: ves
    • Slovene: vȃs (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vьsь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 539
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016) “vas”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *vь̏sь
  3. Olander, Thomas (2001) “vьsь vьsi”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:f. b/c landsby (PR 136, 138)

Further reading

  • Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics), volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 517
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “весь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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