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]^[2]

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	—

(*)*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

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vortìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 529: “v. (b) ‘turn, return’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “vortiti: vortjǫ vortitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b vende tilbage (PR 137, 140; MP 27)”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vortìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 529: “v. (b) ‘turn, return’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “vortiti: vortjǫ vortitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b vende tilbage (PR 137, 140; MP 27)”

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