витѧзь

Old East Slavic

Etymology

First attested in 1392. Borrowed from Serbian Church Slavonic витѧѕь (vitędzĭ), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vìtędzь, from Proto-Germanic *wīkingaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋitɛ̃zɪ/→/ˈʋʲitʲazʲɪ/→/ˈʋʲitʲazʲ/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈʋitɛ̃zɪ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈʋʲitʲazʲɪ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈʋʲitʲazʲ/

• Hyphenation: ви‧тѧ‧зь

Noun

витѧзь (vitęzĭ) m

1. hero, knight
2. warrior from the prince's squad, king's guard

Derived terms

nouns

• витѧжьство (vitęžĭstvo)

 

Descendants

• Old Ruthenian: ви́тѧзь (vítjazʹ), ви́тєзь (vítjezʹ), ви́тѧжь (vítjažʹ)
  • Belarusian: (archaic) ві́цязь (vícjazʹ)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: ві́тязь (vítjazʹ)
  • Ukrainian: ви́тязь (výtjazʹ)
  • → Middle Russian: ви́тѧзь (vítjazʹ), ви́тезь (vítezʹ)
    • Russian: (archaic) ви́тязь (vítjazʹ)
      • → Bulgarian: ви́тяз (vítjaz), витéз (vitéz)
  • → Polish: (obsolete) witeź

Further reading

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “витѧзь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 265
• Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1975), “витязь (витезь)”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.]‎^[2] (in Russian), numbers 2 (в – волога), Moscow: Nauka, page 194

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

• ви́тєзь (vítjezʹ), ви́тѧжь (vítjažʹ)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic витѧзь (vitęzĭ), first attested in 1392.

Noun

ви́тѧзь • (vítjazʹ) m pers

1. hero, knight
2. warrior, bogatyr

Related terms

adjectives

• витѧжный (vitjažnyj)
• витѧзевъ (vitjazev)
• витѧзкїй (vitjazkij)
• витѧзскїй (vitjazskij)

 

nouns

• витѧжство (vitjažstvo)
• витѧжца (vitjažca)
• звитѧжца (zvitjažca)

 

verbs

• витѧжити (vitjažiti)
• звитѧжити (zvitjažiti)

 

Descendants

• Belarusian: (archaic) ві́цязь (vícjazʹ)
• Carpathian Rusyn: ві́тязь (vítjazʹ)
• Ukrainian: ви́тязь (výtjazʹ)
• → Middle Russian: ви́тѧзь (vítjazʹ), ви́тезь (vítezʹ)
  • Russian: (archaic) ви́тязь (vítjazʹ)
    • → Bulgarian: ви́тяз (vítjaz), витéз (vitéz)
• → Polish: (obsolete) witeź

Further reading

• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1983), “витязь, витяжь, витезь”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 3 (вариво – вкупе), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 297
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1997), “витязь, вѣтязь”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 4 (весь – вправѣ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 75
• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “витязь”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 257
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “витѧзь”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 177