Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věťati
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Balto-Slavic *waitjāˀtei. Equivalent to *větiti + *-jati, from *větъ + *-iti. Cognate with Old Prussian waitiāt (“to say”). Connections outside of Balto-Slavic unclear. Possibly related to Avestan 𐬀𐬉𐬚𐬀- (aēθa-, “to verdict”).
In most descendants, this verb merged with Proto-Slavic *věščati (“to prophesy”), from *věščь (“proficient”).
Verb
edit*věťati impf[1]
Inflection
editConjugation of *věťati, *věťa, *věťajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
---|---|---|---|
*věťanьje | *věťati | *věťatъ | *věťalъ |
Participles | ||
---|---|---|
Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *věťanъ | *věťajemъ |
Active | *věťavъ | *věťaję |
Aorist | Present | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *věťaxъ | *věťa | *věťa | *věťajǫ | *věťaješi | *věťajetь |
Dual | *věťaxově | *věťasta | *věťaste | *věťajevě | *věťajeta | *věťajete |
Plural | *věťaxomъ | *věťaste | *věťašę | *věťajemъ | *věťajete | *věťajǫtь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *věťaaxъ | *věťaaše | *věťaaše | — | *věťaji | *věťaji |
Dual | *věťaaxově | *věťaašeta | *věťaašete | *věťajivě | *věťajita | — |
Plural | *věťaaxomъ | *věťaašete | *věťaaxǫ | *věťajimъ | *věťajite | — |
Derived terms
edit- *otъvěťati (“to answer”)
- *oběťati (“to promise, to pledge”)
- *privěťati (“to greet”)
- Russian: привеча́ть (privečátʹ)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- East Slavic:
- Russian: Pskov dialectal веча́ть (večátʹ, “to shout”)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Bulgarian: веща́я (veštája, “to proclaim”) (archaic)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: vẹ̄čati (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
Further reading
edit- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “веща́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 148
- Snoj, Marko (2016) “vẹ̄čati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “ветам (се)”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 138
References
edit- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*větjati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 520: “v. ‘say’”