# витѧзь
## Old East Slavic
### Etymology

First attested in 1392. Borrowed from Serbian Church Slavonic витѧѕь (vitędzĭ), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vìtędzь, from Proto-Germanic *wīkingaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋitɛ̃zɪ/→/ˈʋʲitʲazʲɪ/→/ˈʋʲitʲazʲ/
* (ca. 9th CE) IPA: /ˈʋitɛ̃zɪ/
* (ca. 11th CE) IPA: /ˈʋʲitʲazʲɪ/
* (ca. 13th CE) IPA: /ˈʋʲitʲazʲ/
* Hyphenation: ви‧тѧ‧зь

### Noun

витѧзь (vitęzĭ) m
* hero, knight
* warrior from the prince's squad, king's guard

#### Derived terms

* витѧжьство (vitęžĭstvo)

#### Descendants

* Old Ruthenian: ви́тѧзь (vítjazʹ), ви́тєзь (vítjezʹ), ви́тѧжь (vítjažʹ)
** Belarusian: ві́цязь (vícjazʹ) (archaic)
** Carpathian Rusyn: ві́тязь (vítjazʹ)
** Ukrainian: ви́тязь (výtjazʹ)
** → Middle Russian: ви́тѧзь (vítjazʹ), ви́тезь (vítezʹ)
*** Russian: ви́тязь (vítjazʹ) (archaic)
**** → Bulgarian: ви́тяз (vítjaz), витéз (vitéz)
** → Polish: witeź (obsolete)

### Further reading

* Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “витѧзь”, 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, column 265
* Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1975), “витязь (витезь)”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 2 (в – волога), Moscow: Nauka, page 194

## Old Ruthenian
### Alternative forms

* ви́тєзь (vítjezʹ), ви́тѧжь (vítjažʹ)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic витѧзь (vitęzĭ), first attested in 1392.

### Noun

ви́тѧзь • (vítjazʹ) m pers
* hero, knight
* warrior, bogatyr

#### Related terms

* витѧжный (vitjažnyj)
* витѧзевъ (vitjazev)
* витѧзкїй (vitjazkij)
* витѧзскїй (vitjazskij)
* витѧжство (vitjažstvo)
* витѧжца (vitjažca)
* звитѧжца (zvitjažca)
* витѧжити (vitjažiti)
* звитѧжити (zvitjažiti)

#### Descendants

* Belarusian: ві́цязь (vícjazʹ) (archaic)
* Carpathian Rusyn: ві́тязь (vítjazʹ)
* Ukrainian: ви́тязь (výtjazʹ)
* → Middle Russian: ви́тѧзь (vítjazʹ), ви́тезь (vítezʹ)
** Russian: ви́тязь (vítjazʹ) (archaic)
*** → Bulgarian: ви́тяз (vítjaz), витéз (vitéz)
* → Polish: witeź (obsolete)

### Further reading

* Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1983), “витязь, витяжь, витезь”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 3 (вариво – вкупе), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 297
* Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1997), “витязь, вѣтязь”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 4 (весь – вправѣ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 75
* Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “витязь”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 257
* Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “витѧзь”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 177