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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vьsь

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vьśь
 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 *wiśis, from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-.

Akin to Latvian vìesis (“visitor”), Lithuanian viešis (“guest”). Further related to Latin vīcus (“village”), Proto-Germanic *wīkō (“settlement”), which may be the origin of Old Norse víkingr (“viking”). The latter was borrowed into Slavic as Proto-Slavic *vitędzь (“hero, knight”).

Noun

*vь̀sь f[1][2][3]

  1. hamlet, village

Declension

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Derived terms
  • *vьsьcь, *vьsьka (diminutive)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: вьсь (vĭsĭ)
    • Russian: весь (vesʹ) (dated or in set expressions)
      • ⇒ Russian: ве́слина (véslina), весца́ (vescá) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: вьсь (vĭsĭ)
    • Bulgarian: вес (ves), ве́сец (vésec) (historical)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ва̑с
      Latin script: vȃs
      • Kajkavian Serbo-Croatian: ves
    • Slovene: vȃs (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vьsь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 539
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “vas”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *vь̏sь”
  3. Olander, Thomas (2001), “vьsь vьsi”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f. b/c landsby (PR 136, 138)”

Further reading
  • Verweij, Arno (1994), “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎, volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 517
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “весь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
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