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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vъz

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *uź. Further etymology is disputed. Derksen tries to derive from proto-form *ups, but fails to see how it could account for the Baltic facts.

Preposition

*vъz [1][2]

  1. (+accusative) instead of, in return for
  2. (+accusative) up
  3. (+accusative) by, beside

See also

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: въз (vŭz)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: въз (vŭz)
    • Serbo-Croatian: уз, uz
  • West Slavic:
    • Polish: wz, wze (?)

Further reading
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “воз-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
  • Sreznevskij, I. I. (1893), “възъ”, in Materialy dlja slovarja drevne-russkago jazyka po pisʹmennym pamjatnikam [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language According to Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 371

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vъz”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 533: “prep., pref. ‘in return for, (pref.) up, back’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “vъz”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “(prep. and prefix) (PR 146)”
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