Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vesna

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 *was(e)r, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥.

Noun

*vesnà f

1. spring (season)

Inflection

Declension of *vesnà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*vesnà	*vȅsně	*vȅsny
genitive	*vesný	*vesnù	*vèsnъ
dative	*vesně̀	*vesnàma	*vesnàmъ
accusative	*vȅsnǫ	*vȅsně	*vȅsny
instrumental	*vesnojǫ́	*vesnàma	*vesnàmi
locative	*vȅsně	*vesnù	*vesnàsъ, *vesnàxъ*
vocative	*vesno	*vȅsně	*vȅsny

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.

Synonyms

• *jaro

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: весна (vesna)
    • Old Ruthenian: весна (vesna)
      • Belarusian: вясна́ (vjasná)
      • Ukrainian: весна́ (vesná)
    • Russian: весна́ (vesná)
  • Old Novgorodian: вешна (vešna) (Old Pskovian)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: весна (vesna)

    Glagolitic: ⰲⰵⱄⱀⰰ (vesna)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ве̏сна, Ве̏сна

    Latin: vȅsna, Vȅsna

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vesna
    • Czech: vesna (poetic)
      • Moravian (Mistřice): vesno
  • Old Polish: wiosna
    • Polish: wiosna
  • Slovak: vesna (poetic)

See also

• (seasons) *vermę goda; *jaro / *vesna, *lěto, *(j)esenь, *zima

Further reading

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