Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/voľa

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

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wáljāˀ.

Noun

*voľà f^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

will

Declension

Accent paradigm f: N. *voľà, A. *vòľǫ.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Declension of *voľa (soft a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*voľa	*voľi	*voľę̇
genitive	*voľę̇	*voľu	*voľь
dative	*voľi	*voľama	*voľamъ
accusative	*voľǫ	*voľi	*voľę̇
instrumental	voľejǫ, voľǫ^**	*voľama	*voľami
locative	*voľi	*voľu	voľasъ, voľaxъ^*
vocative	*voľe	*voľi	*voľę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

adjectives

*velь (“big, great”)
*velìkъ (“big, great”)
*volьnъ (“free, willing”)

adverbs

*velьmi (“very”)

verbs

*dovьlěti (“to suffice”)
*velěti (“to want, to order”)
*voliti (“to wish, to choose”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: во́лꙗ (vólja), волꙗ́ (voljá)
  - Old Ruthenian: во́лꙗ (vólja), во́лѣ (vólě)
    - Belarusian: во́ля (vólja)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: во́ля (vólja)
    - Ukrainian: во́ля (vólja)
  - Middle Russian: во́ля (vólja)
    - Russian: во́ля (vólja)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: волꙗ (volja)
- Bulgarian: во́ля (vólja)
- Macedonian: во́лја (vólja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: во̏ља
  
  Latin script: vȍlja
- Slovene: vọ́lja (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: vóle
  - Czech: vůle
- Polabian: viľă
- Old Polish: wola
  - Polish: wola
- Old Slovak: voľa, vôľa, vúľa
  - Pannonian Rusyn: воля (volja)
  - Slovak: vôľa
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: wòlô
  - Slovincian: wôlo
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: wóla
  - Upper Sorbian: wola

Non-Slavic:
- →? Romanian: voie

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vòļa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 525: “f. jā (b) ‘will, wish’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “volja voljě”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b* (SA 78; PR 135; MP 19)”
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Snoj, Marko (2016) “vọ́lja”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*vol'a̋ (tož. *vòl'ǫ)”
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Dybo, Vladimir A. (2000) Морфонологизованные парадигматические акцентные системы: Типология и генезис [Morphophonologized paradigmatic accent systems: Typology and genesis]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 156: “volja̍”
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Nikolaev, Sergei L. (2020) «Слово о полку Игореве»: реконструкция стихотворного текста [“The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”: reconstruction of a poetic text]‎^[3] (in Russian), Moscow, Saint-Petersburg: Nestor-History, →ISBN, page 258
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 Dybo, Vladimir A. (1974‒1975) Лекции по славянской исторической акцентологии (рукописные конспекты) [Lectures on Slavic historical accentology (handwritten abstracts)]‎^[4] (in Russian), Moscow, page 32‒37: “*vòlja”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vòļa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 525: “f. jā (b) ‘will, wish’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “volja voljě”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b* (SA 78; PR 135; MP 19)”

[SES-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Snoj, Marko (2016) “vọ́lja”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*vol'a̋ (tož. *vòl'ǫ)”

[Dybo_2000-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Dybo, Vladimir A. (2000) Морфонологизованные парадигматические акцентные системы: Типология и генезис [Morphophonologized paradigmatic accent systems: Typology and genesis]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 156: “volja̍”

[Nikolaev_2020-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Nikolaev, Sergei L. (2020) «Слово о полку Игореве»: реконструкция стихотворного текста [“The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”: reconstruction of a poetic text]‎^[3] (in Russian), Moscow, Saint-Petersburg: Nestor-History, →ISBN, page 258

[Dybo_1974‒1975-6] 6.0 ^6.1 Dybo, Vladimir A. (1974‒1975) Лекции по славянской исторической акцентологии (рукописные конспекты) [Lectures on Slavic historical accentology (handwritten abstracts)]‎^[4] (in Russian), Moscow, page 32‒37: “*vòlja”

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