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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vitędzь

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

Based on the ethnonym Proto-Germanic *wīkingaz (whence Old Norse víkingr (“bay dweller”)), ultimately from *wīkō (“inlet, bay”).

Similar semantic shift ethnonym → hero, legendary figure is also found in Proto-Slavic *spolinъ, *spolovъ (“giant”) from the name of a Sarmatian people, and in Old Polish obrzym (“giant”), from Proto-Slavic *ob(ъ)rinъ, originally meant "Avar".

According to Brückner and Machek, medial -t- probably is due to the influence of Proto-Slavic *vitěnьcь (“provider, supplier, guardian”) from Proto-Slavic *viti (“to twine, to curve”). Compare Old Church Slavonic възвитъ (vŭzvitŭ, “provisions, supply”).

Noun

*vìtędzь m[1]

  1. knight, hero

Declension
Declension of *vìtędzь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *vìtędzь *vìtędza *vìtędzi
genitive *vìtędza *vìtędzu *vìtędzь
dative *vìtędzu *vìtędzema *vìtędzēmъ
accusative *vìtędzь *vìtędza *vìtędzę̇
instrumental *vìtędzьmь, *vìtędzemь* *vìtędzema *vìtędzī
locative *vìtędzi *vìtędzu *vìtędzīxъ
vocative *vìtęže *vìtędza *vìtędzi
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

See also

Descendants
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      • Serbian Church Slavonic: витѩѕь (vitjędzĭ)
    • Bulgarian: ви́тег (víteg), ви́тез (vítez), ви́тец (vítec) (poetic)
    • Macedonian: витез (vitez)
    • Old Serbian витѧзь (15ᵗʰ c.)
      • → Old Ruthenian: ви́тѧзь (vítjazʹ), ви́тѧжь (vítjažʹ), ви́тезь (vítezʹ)
      • → Middle Russian: ви́тѧзь (vítjazʹ) (1490)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ви̏те̄з
      Latin script: vȉtēz
    • Slovene: vȋtez (tonal orthography)
    • → Hungarian: vitéz
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ви́тязь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “витег, витек, витец”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 154

References
  1. Snoj, Marko (2016) “vitez”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Slovan. *vi̋tędzь”
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