Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vęzъ

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 *winźas, from Proto-Indo-European *winǵos, variant of *wiǵo.^[1]

See also English wych (“elm”), Northern Kurdish bizî. Balto-Slavic cognates include Latvian vîksna, Lithuanian vìnkšna.

Noun

*vęzъ m

elm
Synonyms: *berstъ, *jьlьmъ

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: вѧзъ (vęzŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: вѧзъ (vjaz)
    - Belarusian: вяз (vjaz)
    - Ukrainian: в'яз (vʺjaz)
  - Russian: вяз (vjaz)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: вез (vez), веза (veza), вяз (vjaz) (dialectal)^[2]
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ве̑з
  
  Latin script: vȇz
- Slovene: vêz (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: vaz
- Old Polish: wiąz
  - Polish: wiąz
- Slovak: väz
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: wěz
  - Upper Sorbian: wjaz

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вяз”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1177”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1177
^ Давидов Б., Явашев А., Ахтаров Б. (1939) Материали за български ботанически речник [Materials for Bulgarian botanical glossary] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Придворна печатница

[1] Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1177”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1177

[2] Давидов Б., Явашев А., Ахтаров Б. (1939) Материали за български ботанически речник [Materials for Bulgarian botanical glossary] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Придворна печатница

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