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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/verťa

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 *verti (“to thread, to thrust into”) +‎ *-ťa, akin to Lithuanian virtinė (“string”), Latvian ver̃t (“to thread”).

Noun

*vèrťa f[1]

  1. woven sack, pouch, bag
    Coordinate term: *měxъ (“cutaneous sack, bag”)

Alternative forms
  • *verťe n
  • *verta (a-stem)

Declension
Declension of *verťa (soft a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *verťa *verťi *verťę̇
genitive *verťę̇ *verťu *verťь
dative *verťi *verťama *verťamъ
accusative *verťǫ *verťi *verťę̇
instrumental *verťejǫ, *verťǫ** *verťama *verťami
locative *verťi *verťu *verťasъ, *verťaxъ*
vocative *verťe *verťi *verťę̇
* -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.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms
  • *verťьka, *verťica (diminutive)
  • *vertišče (augmentative)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: верета́ (veretá) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: верета́ (veretá) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: врѣще n (vrěšte)
    • Bulgarian: вре́ща (vréšta), вре́ча (vréča), вре́кя (vrékja); врещ m (vrešt) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: вреќа (vreḱa)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: вре̏ћа
      Latin script: vrȅća
    • Slovene: vrẹ́ča (tonal orthography); vreče n (obsolete, 16 cent.)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: vřece n
      • ⇒ Czech: vřecko
    • Slovak: vrece n

References
  1. Snoj, Marko (2016) “vreča”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *ve̋rťa, *ve̋rťe, *verta̋”

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “верета”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “врещ, вреща”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 186
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