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витѧзь

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Old East Slavic

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Etymology

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First attested in 1392. Borrowed from Serbian Church Slavonic витѧѕь (vitędzĭ), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vìtędzь, from Proto-Germanic *wīkingaz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʋitɛ̃zɪ//ˈʋʲitʲazʲɪ//ˈʋʲitʲazʲ/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈʋitɛ̃zɪ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈʋʲitʲazʲɪ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈʋʲitʲazʲ/

  • Hyphenation: ви‧тѧ‧зь

Noun

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витѧзь (vitęzĭm

  1. hero, knight
  2. warrior from the prince's squad, king's guard

Declension

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “витѧзь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 265
  • Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1975), “витязь (витезь)”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 2 (в – волога), Moscow: Nauka, page 194

Old Ruthenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old East Slavic витѧзь (vitęzĭ), first attested in 1392.

Noun

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ви́тѧзь (vítjazʹm pers

  1. hero, knight
  2. warrior, bogatyr
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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1983), “витязь, витяжь, витезь”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 3 (вариво – вкупе), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 297
  • Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1997), “витязь, вѣтязь”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 4 (весь – вправѣ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 75
  • Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “витязь”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 257
  • Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “витѧзь”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 177