Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/voržiti

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

Presumably, from *vorgъ +‎ *-iti.

Verb

*voržiti

1. to cheat?, to deceive?
2. to tell fortunes?, to divine?, conjure?

Inflection

Conjugation of *voržiti, *vorži, *voržitь (impf., -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*vorženьje	*voržiti	*voržitъ	*voržilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*vorženъ	*voržimъ
Active	*voržь	*voržę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*voržixъ	*vorži	*vorži	*voržǫ	*voržiši	*voržitь
Dual	*voržixově	*voržista	*voržiste	*vorživě	*voržita	*voržite
Plural	*voržixomъ	*voržiste	*voržišę	*voržimъ	*voržite	*voržętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*voržaaxъ	*voržaaše	*voržaaše	—	*vorži	*vorži
Dual	*voržaaxově	*voržaašeta	*voržaašete	*vorživě	*voržita	—
Plural	*voržaaxomъ	*voržaašete	*voržaaxǫ	*voržimъ	*voržite	—

Notes:
• (*)*vorživъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ворожити (vorožiti)
    • Old Ruthenian: ворожи́ти (vorožíti)
      • Belarusian: варажы́ць (varažýcʹ)
      • Ukrainian: ворожи́ти (vorožýty)
    • Russian: ворожи́ть (vorožítʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: вража́ (vražá) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: вража (vraža)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: врàжити

    Latin script: vràžiti

  • Slovene: vražíti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: vražit
  • Kashubian: wróżëc
  • Polish: wróżyć
  • Slovak: vražiť

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: varázsol

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964) “ворожи́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – Д), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “ворожити”, in Етимологічний словник української мови (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1980), “варажы́ць”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы (in Belarusian), volumes 2 (ва – вяшчэ́ль), Minsk: Navuka i technika