Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/voďь

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

Noun

vòďь m

1. leader, chief

Declension

Declension of *vòďь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*vòďь	*voďà	*voďì
genitive	*voďà	*voďù	*vòďь
dative	*voďù	*voďèma	*vòďemъ
accusative	*vòďь	*voďà	*voďę̇̀
instrumental	*voďь̀mь, *voďèmь*	*voďèma	*vòďi
locative	*voďì	*voďù	*vòďixъ
vocative	*voďu	*voďà	*voďì

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *vojevoda

Descendants

• 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

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вождь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “вождь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), 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]‎^[2] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 281