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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vędnǫti

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Per Derksen, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)wendʰ-. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *svędnǫti, Old High German swintan (to shrink, to fade), German schwinden (to shrink, to fade), Old English swindan (to subside, to fade).

Verb

*vę̀dnǫti impf

  1. to fade, to wither

Inflection

  • *svędnǫti (to wither)
  • *vǫditi

Derived terms

  • *uvędnǫti

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: вꙗнꙋти (vjanuti)
      • Belarusian: вя́нуць (vjánucʹ)
      • Russian: вя́нуть (vjánutʹ)
      • Ukrainian: в'я́нути (vʺjánuty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: compare оувѩдати (uvjędati)
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: вя́на (vjána)
    • Macedonian: вене (vene)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: ве̏нути
      Latin: vȅnuti
    • Slovene: vẹ́niti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References

  • Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vę̀dnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 520
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), вя́нуть”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
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