Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věťe

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

Related to Proto-Slavic *větъ (“talk, claim”), formed with the suffix *-je.

Noun

*vě̑ťe n

1. council, veche

Inflection

Declension of *vě̑ťe (soft o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*vě̑ťe	*vě̑ťi	*věťà
genitive	*vě̑ťa	*věťù	*vě̃ťь
dative	*vě̑ťu	*věťemà	*věťémъ
accusative	*vě̑ťe	*vě̑ťi	*věťà
instrumental	*vě̑ťьmь, *vě̑ťemь*	*věťemà	*věťí
locative	*vě̑ťi	*věťù	*věťíxъ
vocative	*vě̑ťe	*vě̑ťi	*věťà

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

Related terms

• *věťati (“to discuss”)
  • *sъvěťanьje (“conference, consultation”)
• *věti m (“orator”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вѣ́че (vě́če)
    • Belarusian: ве́ча (vjéča)
    • Russian: ве́че (véče)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: ві́че (víče)
    • Ukrainian: ві́че (víče)
  • Old Novgorodian: вѣ́че (vě́če)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: вѣщє (věšte)

    Glagolitic script: ⰲⱑⱋⰵ (věšte)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ве́ће

    Latin script: véće

  • Slovene: vẹ̄ča (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: věce
  • Old Polish: wiece
    • Polish: wiec

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вече”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress