Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věnikъ

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 *věnъ (“wreath”) +‎ *-ikъ.

Noun

*věnikъ m

1. wreath

Inflection

Declension of *věnikъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*věnikъ	*věnika	*věnici
genitive	*věnika	*věniku	*věnikъ
dative	*věniku	*věnikoma	*věnikomъ
accusative	*věnikъ	*věnika	*věniky
instrumental	*věnikъmь, *věnikomь*	*věnikoma	*věniky
locative	*věnicě	*věniku	*věnicěxъ
vocative	*věniče	*věnika	*věnici

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вѣникъ (věnikŭ)
    • Belarusian: ве́нік (vjénik, “broom”)
    • Russian: ве́ник (vénik, “broom”)
    • Ukrainian: ві́ник (vínyk, “broom”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: вѣникъ (věnikŭ)

  • Slovene: venik
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech:
    • Czech: věník
    • → Old Polish: wienik

Further reading

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