"veťь" meaning in Proto-Slavic

See veťь in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wektís, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s, from *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *wihtiz. Etymology templates: {{root|sla-pro|ine-pro|*wekʷ-}}, {{inh|sla-pro|ine-bsl-pro|*wektís}} Proto-Balto-Slavic *wektís, {{inh|sla-pro|ine-pro|*wékʷtis|*wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s}} Proto-Indo-European *wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s, {{cog|gem-pro|*wihtiz}} Proto-Germanic *wihtiz Inflection templates: {{sla-decl-noun|ap=c|g=f}} Forms: vȅťь [canonical, feminine], no-table-tags [table-tags], vȅťь [nominative, singular], vȅťi [dual, nominative], vȅťi [nominative, plural], veťí [genitive, singular], veťьjù [dual, genitive], veťь̀jь [genitive, plural], vȅťi [dative, singular], veťьmà [dative, dual], vȅťьmъ [dative, plural], vȅťь [accusative, singular], vȅťi [accusative, dual], vȅťi [accusative, plural], veťьjǫ́ [instrumental, singular], veťьmà [dual, instrumental], veťьmì [instrumental, plural], veťí [locative, singular], veťьjù [dual, locative], vȅťьxъ [locative, plural], veťi [singular, vocative], vȅťi [dual, vocative], vȅťi [plural, vocative], *věťь [alternative]
  1. thing Tags: reconstruction Derived forms: veťьnъ Related terms: rěčь (alt: < *reťi) (english: to speak, say), věkъ, věčьnъ, věščь (alt: < *vědtjь), větъ
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "South Slavic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cu",
            "2": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Church Slavonic:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Church Slavonic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cu",
            "2": "вещь",
            "sclb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Cyrillic script: вещь (veštĭ)\nBulgarian: вещ (vešt)\n→ Old East Slavic: вещь (veščĭ)\nRussian: вещь (veščʹ)\n→ Armenian: վեշ (veš)\n→ Azerbaijani: veş\n→ Georgian: ვეში (veši)\n→ Kildin Sami: ве̄шшь (viešš’)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Cyrillic script: вещь (veštĭ)\nBulgarian: вещ (vešt)\n→ Old East Slavic: вещь (veščĭ)\nRussian: вещь (veščʹ)\n→ Armenian: վեշ (veš)\n→ Azerbaijani: veş\n→ Georgian: ვეში (veši)\n→ Kildin Sami: ве̄шшь (viešš’)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "West Slavic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zlw-ocs",
            "2": "věc"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Czech: věc",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Czech: věc"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cs",
            "2": "věc"
          },
          "expansion": "Czech: věc",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Czech: věc"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sla-pro",
            "2": "Chod dialect"
          },
          "expansion": "(Chod dialect)",
          "name": "a"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Bohemian (Chod dialect): věc"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "csb",
            "2": "wiec"
          },
          "expansion": "Kashubian: wiec",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Kashubian: wiec"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "wiec"
          },
          "expansion": "Polish: wiec",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Polish: wiec"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sk",
            "2": "vec"
          },
          "expansion": "Slovak: vec",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Slovak: vec"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Sorbian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hsb",
            "2": "wěc"
          },
          "expansion": "Upper Sorbian: wěc",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Upper Sorbian: wěc"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "dsb",
            "2": "wěc"
          },
          "expansion": "Lower Sorbian: wěc",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Lower Sorbian: wěc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*wekʷ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "3": "*wektís"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Balto-Slavic *wektís",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*wékʷtis",
        "4": "*wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*wihtiz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wihtiz",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wektís, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s, from *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *wihtiz.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vȅťь",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sla-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьjù",
      "roman": "veťu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťь̀jь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьmà",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťьmъ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьjǫ́",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьmà",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьmì",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьjù",
      "roman": "veťu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťьxъ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "*věťь",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "ap": "c",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "name": "sla-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
  "lang_code": "sla-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/veťь",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Slavic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm c",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "veťьnъ"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "thing"
      ],
      "id": "en-veťь-sla-pro-noun-XelNaRrj",
      "links": [
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "alt": "< *reťi",
          "english": "to speak, say",
          "word": "rěčь"
        },
        {
          "word": "věkъ"
        },
        {
          "word": "věčьnъ"
        },
        {
          "alt": "< *vědtjь",
          "word": "věščь"
        },
        {
          "word": "větъ"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "veťь"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "veťьnъ"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "South Slavic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cu",
            "2": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Church Slavonic:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Church Slavonic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cu",
            "2": "вещь",
            "sclb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Cyrillic script: вещь (veštĭ)\nBulgarian: вещ (vešt)\n→ Old East Slavic: вещь (veščĭ)\nRussian: вещь (veščʹ)\n→ Armenian: վեշ (veš)\n→ Azerbaijani: veş\n→ Georgian: ვეში (veši)\n→ Kildin Sami: ве̄шшь (viešš’)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Cyrillic script: вещь (veštĭ)\nBulgarian: вещ (vešt)\n→ Old East Slavic: вещь (veščĭ)\nRussian: вещь (veščʹ)\n→ Armenian: վեշ (veš)\n→ Azerbaijani: veş\n→ Georgian: ვეში (veši)\n→ Kildin Sami: ве̄шшь (viešš’)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "West Slavic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zlw-ocs",
            "2": "věc"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Czech: věc",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Czech: věc"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cs",
            "2": "věc"
          },
          "expansion": "Czech: věc",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Czech: věc"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sla-pro",
            "2": "Chod dialect"
          },
          "expansion": "(Chod dialect)",
          "name": "a"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Bohemian (Chod dialect): věc"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "csb",
            "2": "wiec"
          },
          "expansion": "Kashubian: wiec",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Kashubian: wiec"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "wiec"
          },
          "expansion": "Polish: wiec",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Polish: wiec"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sk",
            "2": "vec"
          },
          "expansion": "Slovak: vec",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Slovak: vec"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Sorbian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hsb",
            "2": "wěc"
          },
          "expansion": "Upper Sorbian: wěc",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Upper Sorbian: wěc"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "dsb",
            "2": "wěc"
          },
          "expansion": "Lower Sorbian: wěc",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Lower Sorbian: wěc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*wekʷ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "3": "*wektís"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Balto-Slavic *wektís",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*wékʷtis",
        "4": "*wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*wihtiz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wihtiz",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wektís, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s, from *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *wihtiz.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vȅťь",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sla-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьjù",
      "roman": "veťu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťь̀jь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьmà",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťьmъ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьjǫ́",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьmà",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьmì",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťьjù",
      "roman": "veťu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťьxъ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vȅťi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "*věťь",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "ap": "c",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "name": "sla-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
  "lang_code": "sla-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/veťь",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "alt": "< *reťi",
      "english": "to speak, say",
      "word": "rěčь"
    },
    {
      "word": "věkъ"
    },
    {
      "word": "věčьnъ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "< *vědtjь",
      "word": "věščь"
    },
    {
      "word": "větъ"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Proto-Slavic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-Slavic feminine i-stem nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic feminine nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic i-stem nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic lemmas",
        "Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm c",
        "Proto-Slavic nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic",
        "Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Proto-Slavic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wekʷ-",
        "Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic",
        "Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "thing"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "veťь"
}

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