Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vęzъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *wénźas. From Proto-Indo-European *wénǵʰ-os. from Proto-Indo-European *winǵos, variant of *wiǵo.

See also English wych (“elm”), Northern Kurdish bizî. Balto-Slavic cognates include Latvian vîksna, Lithuanian vìnkšna.

Noun

*vęzъ m

1. elm

   Synonyms: *berstъ, *jьlьmъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вѧзъ (vęzŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: вѧзъ (vjaz)
      • Belarusian: вяз (vjaz)
      • Ukrainian: в'яз (vʺjaz)
    • Russian: вяз (vjaz)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: вез (vez), веза (veza), вяз (vjaz) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ве̑з

    Latin script: vȇz

  • Slovene: vêz (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: vaz
  • Old Polish: wiąz
    • Polish: wiąz
  • Slovak: väz
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wěz
    • Upper Sorbian: wjaz

References

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