Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/voďь

From *voditi (“to lead, conduct”) +‎ *-jь. Compare Lithuanian vãdas, Czech vůdce, Slovak vodca, Upper Sorbian wodźićel, Lower Sorbian wjednik.

vòďь m[1]

1. leader, chief

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• *vojevoda

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вожь (vožĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: вожь (vožʹ), вожъ (vož)
      • ⇒ Carpathian Rusyn: вожай (vožaj)
    • Russian: вож (vož)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: вождь (voždĭ)
    • → Russian: вождь (voždʹ)
      • → English: vozhd
    • → Carpathian Rusyn: вожда (vožda)
    • → Ukrainian: вождь (voždʹ)
  • Bulgarian: вожд (vožd)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: во̑ђ, во̑ђа

    Latin script: vȍđ, vȍđa

  • Slovene: vòj
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: wódz
    • Polish: wódz

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “вождь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “вождь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 161
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “вождь”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893), “вожь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 281