Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věno

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 *wēˀdná, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wed-no-m, from *h₁wed- (“dowry”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἕδνον (hédnon), Proto-Germanic *wetmô.

Traditionally also compared (per Vasmer, Brückner, Meillet) with Latin vēnum (“sale”), Sanskrit वस्न (vasná, “price”) from Proto-Indo-European *wesno-, but phonetically problematic - the expected outcome from this root would be Proto-Slavic **vesno, as in Proto-Slavic *vesna (“spring”) from Proto-Indo-European *wésr̥.

Noun

*vě̑no n

1. bride-price

   Synonym: *pridanь

2. dowry

Declension

Declension of *vě̑no (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*vě̑no	*vě̑ně	*věnà
genitive	*vě̑na	*věnù	*vě̃nъ
dative	*vě̑nu	*věnomà	*věnòmъ
accusative	*vě̑no	*vě̑ně	*věnà
instrumental	*vě̑nъmь, *vě̑nomь*	*věnomà	*věný
locative	*vě̑ně	*věnù	*věně̃xъ
vocative	*vě̑no	*vě̑ně	*věnà

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

Derived terms

• *věnovati, *věniti (“to give, to pay dowry”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вѣно (věno)
    • Old Ruthenian: вѣно (věno)
      • Belarusian: ве́на (vjéna)
      • Ukrainian: віно́ (vinó)
    • Russian: ве́но (véno)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: вено́ (venó), ве́но (véno)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: вѐно, вијѐно
    • Latin script: vèno, vijèno
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: věno
    • Czech: věno
  • Old Polish: wieno
    • Polish: wiano
  • Slovak: veno
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wěno

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ве́но”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “венo”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 134