Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pečatь

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

Probably a contamination of an earlier *pečětь (“brand”), formed as *pekti (“to bake, to cook”) +‎ *-ětь, under the influence of an Oghur term (per BER) surviving as Chuvash пичет (pič̬et, “seal, cachet”).

Noun

pečàtь m

1. seal, stamp

   Synonym: *žigъ

Inflection

Declension of *pečatь (i-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pečatь	*pečati	*pečatьjē, *pečaťē*
genitive	*pečatī	*pečatьju, *pečaťu*	*pečatьjь, *pečatī*
dative	*pečati	*pečatьma	*pečatьmъ
accusative	*pečatь	*pečati	*pečati
instrumental	*pečatьmь	*pečatьma	*pečatьmī
locative	*pečatī	*pečatьju, *pečaťu*	*pečatьxъ
vocative	*pečati	*pečati	*pečatьjē, *pečaťē*

^* 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).

Derived terms

• *pečatati (“to print”)
• *pečatьlěti (“to impress”)
  • *vъpečatьlenьje (“impression”)
  • *vъpečatьlitelьnъ (“impressive”)
• *otъpečatьkъ (“imprint”)
• *pečatьnъ (“printed”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: печать (pečatĭ)
    • Belarusian: печа́ць (pječácʹ)
    • Russian: печа́ть f (pečátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: печа́ть (pečátʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: печать (pečatĭ)

    ⇒ Romanian: pecete

    ⇒ Hungarian: pecsét

  • Bulgarian: печа́т (pečát)
  • Macedonian: печат (pečat)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пèчат

    Latin script: pèčat

  • Slovene: pečȃt
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pečět
    • Czech: pečeť f
  • Kashubian: piéczec, piéczac (archaic or dialectal)
  • Polish: pieczęć f (with unexpected -ę-)
  • Slovak: реčať f
  • Sorbian:

    Upper Sorbian: рjеčаt

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “печать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “печа̀т”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 212