Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/voliti
Appearance
Proto-Slavic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Balto-Slavic *walīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *wolh₁-éye-ti, causative of *welh₁- (“to choose, want”). By surface analysis, *voľa (“will”) + *-iti. Cognate to Proto-Germanic *waljaną (“to will”), Sanskrit वरयति (varáyati, “to choose”), also compare Vulgar Latin voleō.
Verb
[edit]*volìti[1]
- (transitive) to wish, to will
- (transitive) to choose, to express preference
- Synonyms: *jьzbьrati, *vybьrati
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *voliti, *voli, *volitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
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*voľenьje | *voliti | *volitъ | *volilъ |
Participles | ||
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Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *voľenъ | *volimъ |
Active | *voľь | *volę |
Aorist | Present | |||||
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Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *volixъ | *voli | *voli | *voľǫ | *voliši | *volitь |
Dual | *volixově | *volista | *voliste | *volivě | *volita | *volite |
Plural | *volixomъ | *voliste | *volišę | *volimъ | *volite | *volętь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *voľaaxъ | *voľaaše | *voľaaše | — | *voli | *voli |
Dual | *voľaaxově | *voľaašeta | *voľaašete | *volivě | *volita | — |
Plural | *voľaaxomъ | *voľaašete | *voľaaxǫ | *volimъ | *volite | — |
- Notes:
- (*)*volivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
Related terms
[edit]noun
verb
Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “волить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “воля¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 175
References
[edit]- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “voliti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *voli̋ti”
Categories:
- Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic terms suffixed with *-iti
- Proto-Slavic lemmas
- Proto-Slavic verbs
- Proto-Slavic transitive verbs
- sla-conj with extra parameters/n
- Proto-Slavic verbs ending in -i-