Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vojevati

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 *vojь +‎ *-ovati.

Verb

*vojevati impf

1. to fight, to war, to wage war, to be at war; to fight, to quarrel

Inflection

Conjugation of *vojevati, *vojeva, *vojujetь (impf., intr., -ova/u-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*vojevanьje	*vojevati	*vojevatъ	*vojevalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	—	—
Active	*vojevavъ	*vojuję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*vojevaxъ	*vojeva	*vojeva	*vojujǫ	*vojuješi	*vojujetь
Dual	*vojevaxově	*vojevasta	*vojevaste	*vojujevě	*vojujeta	*vojujete
Plural	*vojevaxomъ	*vojevaste	*vojevašę	*vojujemъ	*vojujete	*vojujǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*vojevaaxъ	*vojevaaše	*vojevaaše	—	*vojuji	*vojuji
Dual	*vojevaaxově	*vojevaašeta	*vojevaašete	*vojujivě	*vojujita	—
Plural	*vojevaaxomъ	*vojevaašete	*vojevaaxǫ	*vojujimъ	*vojujite	—

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: воевати (vojevati)
    • Old Ruthenian: воєва́ти (vojeváti), воюва́ти (vojuváti)
      • Belarusian: ваява́ць (vajavácʹ)
      • Ukrainian: воюва́ти (vojuváty)
    • Russian: воева́ть (vojevátʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: воѥвати (vojevati)
  • Bulgarian: вою́вам (vojúvam)
  • Macedonian: војува (vojuva)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: војѐвати

    Latin script: vojèvati

  • Slovene: vojeváti
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: wojować
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wojować
    • Lower Sorbian: wójowaś

References

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “воевать”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 101
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “воѥвати”, 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 279