Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vitędzь

Etymology
Based on the ethnonym (whence 🇨🇬), ultimately from.

Similar semantic shift ethnonym → hero, legendary figure is also found in, from the name of a Sarmatian people, and in Old Polish , from , originally meant "Avar".

According to Brückner and Machek, medial -t- probably is due to the influence of 🇨🇬 from 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) knight, hero

Descendants

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