Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/verťa

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 *verti (“to thread, to thrust into”) +‎ *-ťa, akin to Lithuanian virtinė (“string”), Latvian ver̃t (“to thread”).

Noun

*vèrťa f

1. woven sack, pouch, bag

   Coordinate term: *měxъ (“cutaneous sack, bag”)

Alternative forms

• *verťe n
• *verta (a-stem)

Declension

Declension of *verťa (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*verťa	*verťi	*verťę̇
genitive	*verťę̇	*verťu	*verťь
dative	*verťi	*verťama	*verťamъ
accusative	*verťǫ	*verťi	*verťę̇
instrumental	*verťejǫ, *verťǫ**	*verťama	*verťami
locative	*verťi	*verťu	*verťasъ, *verťaxъ*
vocative	*verťe	*verťi	*verťę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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).

Derived terms

• *verťьka, *verťica (diminutive)
• *vertišče (augmentative)

Related terms

• *vьrvь (“string, cord”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: верета́ (veretá) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: верета́ (veretá) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: врѣще n (vrěšte)
  • Bulgarian: вре́ща (vréšta), вре́ча (vréča), вре́кя (vrékja); врещ m (vrešt) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: вреќа (vreḱa)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: вре̏ћа

    Latin script: vrȅća

  • Slovene: vrẹ́ča (tonal orthography); vreče n (obsolete, 16 cent.)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vřece n
    • ⇒ Czech: vřecko
  • Slovak: vrece n

References

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “верета”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “врещ, вреща”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 186