Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/veťь

• *věťь

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wektís, from Proto-Indo-European *wékʷ-ti-s ~ *ukʷ-téy-s, from *wekʷ- (“to speak”).

*vȅťь f[1]

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• *rěčь (< *reťi (“to speak, say”))
• *věkъ, *věčьnъ
• *věščь (< *vědtjь)
• *větъ

• *veťьnъ

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: вещь (veštĭ)

    • Bulgarian: вещ (vešt)
    • → Old East Slavic: вещь (veščĭ)
      • Russian: вещь (veščʹ)
        • → Armenian: վեշ (veš)
        • → Azerbaijani: veş
        • → Georgian: ვეში (veši)
        • → Kildin Sami: ве̄шшь (viešš’)

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: věc
    • Czech: věc
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): věc
  • Kashubian: wiec
  • Polish: wiec
  • Slovak: vec
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wěc
    • Lower Sorbian: wěc

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “вещь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “вещь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 148
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “вещь”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893), “вещь, вешть”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, вешть column 252