Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vitь
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wīˀtis.
Noun edit
*vitь f[1]
Inflection edit
Declension of *vĩtь (i-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *vĩtь | *vītì | *vītì |
genitive | *vĩti | *vĩtьju, *viťu* | *vītь̀jь, *vĩti* |
dative | *vītì | *vĩtьma | *vītь̀mъ |
accusative | *vĩtь | *vītì | *vītì |
instrumental | *vĩtьjǫ, *vĩťǫ* | *vĩtьma | *vĩtьmī |
locative | *vĩti | *vĩtьju, *viťu* | *vītь̀xъ |
vocative | *viti | *vītì | *vītì |
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- Russian: вить (vitʹ)
- South Slavic:
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: pȁvit
- Slovene: vȋt (tonal orthography) (obsolete)
- West Slavic:
References edit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vitь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 522: “f. i”