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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věděti

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 *waid-, *waistei, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to have seen, to know”), perfect of *weyd- (“to see”). Cognate with Old Prussian waist (“to know”) (waidimai class 1p. pl.).

Verb

*vě̀děti impf[1][2][3]

  1. to know, to be familiar/aware of
  2. to foresee

Alternative forms

  • *věsti

Conjugation

There is partial evidence that *věsti ~ *věděti originally had a different set of inflectional endings from the standardly used active endings. Only 1p. sg. *vědě[4][5] is securely attested, e.g. as part of:

Old Church Slavonic азъ боукꙑ вѣдѣ глаголити добро (azŭ buky vědě glagoliti dobro, “I know to speak letters well”)

which is formed by the names of the first five letters of the Glagolitic/Cyrillic alphabet.

Derived terms

  • *vědati (factitive)
    • East Slavic:
      • Belarusian: ве́даць (vjédacʹ)
      • Russian: ве́дать (védatʹ) (dated or poetic)
      • Ukrainian: ві́дати (vídaty) (dated or poetic)
  • *ověsti sę, *ověděti sę (“to get familiar with”)
  • *perdъvěsti, *perdъvěděti (“to prelude”)
  • *pověsti, *pověděti (“to decree, to preach”)
  • *sъvěsti, *sъvěděti (“to notify, to inform”)
  • *věďa, *věděnьje (“knowledge”)
  • *vědь (“awareness, prophesy”)
  • *vědьma (“witch”)
  • *věstь (“message”)
  • *vědomъ (“aware”)
  • *věščь (“proficient, wise”)
  • *věstъ (“known”)

Descendants

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*věděti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 518: “v. ‘know’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “věděti: věmь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c vide (PR 139)”
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016), “vedeti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Slovan. *vě̋děti, sed. *vě(d)mь̏”
  4. Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ведь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
  5. Anikin, A. E. (2012), “ведь”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 6 (вал – вершок), Moscow: LRC, Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 174
  6. Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893), “вѣдѣти, вѣдѣ и вѣсти, вѣмь”, 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, вѣдѣ и вѣсти, вѣмь column 481
  7. Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1975), “вѣдѣти и вѣсти, вѣмь”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ – 17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 2 (в – волога), Moscow: Nauka, page 45
  8. Филин, Ф. П., editor (1969), “ве́сти”, in Slovarʹ russkix narodnyx govorov [Dictionary of Russian Dialects] (in Russian), volume 4, Leningrad: Nauka, Leningrad branch, page 188
  9. Křesćan Pful, editor (1866), “wědźeć”, in Łužiski serbski słownik / Lausitzisch Wendisches Wörterbuch (in German), Budyšin: Maćica Serbska, page 775
  10. Křesćan Pful, editor (1866), “wjedźeć”, in Łužiski serbski słownik / Lausitzisch Wendisches Wörterbuch (in German), Budyšin: Maćica Serbska, page 789

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