Reconstruction talk:Proto-Slavic/vьditi

Bulgarian въдя
The Bulgarian "въдя", which someone disregarded as a descendant of, is impossible to come from the referred form. Not only they are semantically unrelated, but additionally the verb въдя is linked to the noun вид ('kind', 'species'), which suggests an origin from pIE *weyD. In East Slavic, proto-Slavic *vь- > *vъ- > во-, which explains why the Russian form is equivalent with "водить". On top of that, relation with Slavic < proto-Indo-European  is also impossible because of Winter's law (the short -ъ- cannot survive before pIE -d-). This leaves only the reconstruction въдя < pIE *(H)weydʰ-. And given that breeding means to split a given species into various sub-types, it is most logical to assume that въдя < pIE *h₁weydʰ-.
 * S URJECTION ·talk·contr·log· 11:36, 6 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Russian and  are related:
 * — "group of animals having similar characteristics (e.g. appearance)" < ... Latin.
 * Russian from :
 * — Breed: (pf.),  (impf.),  (животных),  (животные).
 * — You need to keep/control the animals to breed them ( = to cause to produce offspring)
 * — 'о' is not stressed in Russian, so **вьди́ти > **вди́ть.
 * So Bulgarian is alone.
 * — If from *vьditi (suffix -iti), why ь is short? Such vocalism is usual for words suffixed with *-ěti/*-ati.
 * —Игорь Тълкачь (talk) 16:32, 6 October 2018 (UTC)