Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/věrovati

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 *věra (“faith”) +‎ *-ovati, with *věriti as a competing form. Absent from West Slavic; possibly a South Slavic innovation, and loaned from Old Church Slavonic into East Slavic languages, where it is a higher-register synonym of the *věriti reflexes.

Verb

*vě̀rovati impf

to believe

Conjugation

Conjugation of *věrovati, *věrova, *věrujetь (impf., -ova/u-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*věrovanьje	*věrovati	*věrovatъ	*věrovalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*věrovanъ	*věrujemъ
Active	*věrovavъ	*věruję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*věrovaxъ	*věrova	*věrova	*věrujǫ	*věruješi	*věrujetь
Dual	*věrovaxově	*věrovasta	*věrovaste	*věrujevě	*věrujeta	*věrujete
Plural	*věrovaxomъ	*věrovaste	*věrovašę	*věrujemъ	*věrujete	*věrujǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*věrovaaxъ	*věrovaaše	*věrovaaše	—	*věruji	*věruji
Dual	*věrovaaxově	*věrovaašeta	*věrovaašete	*věrujivě	*věrujita	—
Plural	*věrovaaxomъ	*věrovaašete	*věrovaaxǫ	*věrujimъ	*věrujite	—

Related terms

*věriti

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: вѣровати (věrovati)
  - Old Ruthenian: вѣровати (věrovati)
    - Belarusian: ве́раваць (vjéravacʹ)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: ві́ровати (vírovaty)
    - Ukrainian: ві́рувати (víruvaty)
  - Russian: ве́ровать (vérovatʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: вѣровати (věrovati)
- Bulgarian: вя̀рвам (vjàrvam)
- Macedonian: верува (veruva)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: вје̏ровати
  
  Latin script: vjȅrovati
- Slovene: vérovati (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: verovati
- Old Slovak: verovať

References

Bezlaj, France (2005) “vẹ́ra”, in Etimološki slovar slovenskega jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Slovenian Language] (in Slovene), volumes 4 (Š – Ž), Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, →ISBN, page 300
Matasović, Ranko (2021) “vjȅrovati”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 558