Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/veťь

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

Alternative forms

• *věťь

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wektís, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s, from *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *wihtiz.

Noun

*vȅťь f

1. thing

Inflection

Declension of *vȅťь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*vȅťь	*vȅťi	*vȅťi
genitive	*veťí	*veťьjù, *veťu*	*veťь̀jь
dative	*vȅťi	*veťьmà	*vȅťьmъ
accusative	*vȅťь	*vȅťi	*vȅťi
instrumental	*veťьjǫ́	*veťьmà	*veťьmì
locative	*veťí	*veťьjù, *veťu*	*vȅťьxъ
vocative	*veťi	*vȅťi	*vȅťi

^* 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).

See also

• *rěčь (< *reťi (“to speak, say”))
• *věkъ, *věčьnъ
• *věščь (< *vědtjь)
• *větъ

Derived terms

• *veťьnъ

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: вещь (veštĭ)

    • Bulgarian: вещ (vešt)
    • → Old East Slavic: вещь (veščĭ)
      • Russian: вещь (veščʹ)
        • → Armenian: վեշ (veš)
        • → Azerbaijani: veş
        • → Georgian: ვეში (veši)
        • → Kildin Sami: ве̄шшь (viešš’)

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: věc
    • Czech: věc
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): věc
  • Kashubian: wiec
  • Polish: wiec
  • Slovak: vec
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wěc
    • Lower Sorbian: wěc

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вещь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “вещь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 148
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “вещь”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “вещь, вешть”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 252