Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vortiti

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *wártīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *wortéyeti, from the root *wert-.

Verb

*vōrtìti

1. to turn, to return

Inflection

Conjugation of *vortiti, *vorti, *vortitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*vorťenьje	*vortiti	*vortitъ	*vortilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*vorťenъ	*vortimъ
Active	*vorťь	*vortę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*vortixъ	*vorti	*vorti	*vorťǫ	*vortiši	*vortitь
Dual	*vortixově	*vortista	*vortiste	*vortivě	*vortita	*vortite
Plural	*vortixomъ	*vortiste	*vortišę	*vortimъ	*vortite	*vortętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*vorťaaxъ	*vorťaaše	*vorťaaše	—	*vorti	*vorti
Dual	*vorťaaxově	*vorťaašeta	*vorťaašete	*vortivě	*vortita	—
Plural	*vorťaaxomъ	*vorťaašete	*vorťaaxǫ	*vortimъ	*vortite	—

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

Related terms

• *vermę (“time”)
• *verteno (“spindle”)
• *vorta (“door, gate”)
• *obvortiti (“to turn around”)
• *vьrsta (“row, age, kind”)
• *vьrstva (“row, age, kind”)
• *vьrtěti (“to turn”)
• *vortičь (“tansy”)
• *vortъ (“neck”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: воротити (vorotiti)
    • Old Ruthenian: воротити (vorotiti)
    • Russian: вороти́ть (vorotítʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: вратити (vratiti)

    • → Russian: -врати́ть (-vratítʹ)
  • Bulgarian: вра́тя (vrátja) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: вра́ти (vráti)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: вра́тити

    Latin script: vrátiti

  • Slovene: vrátiti
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vrátiti
    • Czech: vrátit
  • Polabian: vortait
  • Old Polish: wrócić
    • Polish: wrócić
    • Silesian: wrōcić
  • Old Slovak: vrátiť
    • Slovak: vrátiť
  • Polabian: vortăt
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: wrócëc
    • Slovincian: wrôcëc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wróćić
    • Lower Sorbian: wrośiś

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “воротить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress