Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vezti

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.

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vesti

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *weźtei, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

Verb

*veztì

1. to cart, lead, convey

Inflection

Conjugation of *vezti, *veze, *vezetь (?, -C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm c)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*vezenьje	*vezti	*veztъ	*vezlъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*vezenъ	*vezomъ
Active	*vezъ	*vezy

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*vez(ox)ъ	*veze	*veze	*vezǫ	*vezeši	*vezetь
Dual	*vez(ox)ově	*vez(e/os)ta	*vez(e/os)te	*vezevě	*vezeta	*vezete
Plural	*vez(ox)omъ	*vez(e/os)te	*vezǫ, *vezošę	*vezemъ	*vezete	*vezǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*vezěaxъ	*vezěaše	*vezěaše	—	*vezi	*vezi
Dual	*vezěaxově	*vezěašeta	*vezěašete	*vezěvě	*vezěta	—
Plural	*vezěaxomъ	*vezěašete	*vezěaxǫ	*vezěmъ	*vezěte	—

See also

• *veslo (“oar”)
• *voziti (“to cart, lead, convey”)
• *vozъ (“cart”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: везти (vezti)
    • Old Ruthenian: везти (vezti)
      • Belarusian: ве́зці (vjézci)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: ве́зти (vézty)
      • Ukrainian: везти́ (veztý)
    • Russian: везти́ (veztí)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⰲⰵⱄⱅⰹ (vesti)

    Old Cyrillic script: вести (vesti)

  • Bulgarian: веза́ (vezá) (obsolete)
  • Macedonian:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: вѐсти

    Latin script: vèsti

  • Slovene: vẹ́sti, vésti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vézti
    • Czech: vézt
  • Old Polish: wieźć
    • Polish: wieźć
  • Slovak: viezť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wjesć
    • Lower Sorbian: wjasć

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “везу”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “везти”, 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 138
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “везти, везꙋ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 233