Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pytati
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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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *pew-. Cognate with Latin putāre (“to cut off branches, estimate, consider, think”), Tocharian A putk, as well as (without *-t-) Lithuanian piáuti, Latin paviō, Ancient Greek παίω (paíō), Albanian fus (“insert, put (something) in”).
Verb[edit]
*pȳtàti[1]
Inflection[edit]
Conjugation of *pytati, *pyta, *pytajetь (?, -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)
Suffix: *-ati
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *pytanьje | *pytati | *pytatъ | *pytalъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *pytanъ | *pytajemъ |
| Active | *pytavъ | *pytaję |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *pytaxъ | *pyta | *pyta | *pytajǫ | *pytaješi | *pytajetь |
| Dual | *pytaxově | *pytasta | *pytaste | *pytajevě | *pytajeta | *pytajete |
| Plural | *pytaxomъ | *pytaste | *pytašę | *pytajemъ | *pytajete | *pytajǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *pytaaxъ | *pytaaše | *pytaaše | — | *pytaji | *pytaji |
| Dual | *pytaaxově | *pytaašeta | *pytaašete | *pytajivě | *pytajita | — |
| Plural | *pytaaxomъ | *pytaašete | *pytaaxǫ | *pytajimъ | *pytajite | — |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Bulgarian: пи́там (pítam, “to ask”)
- Macedonian: пита (pita)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: pítati (“to ask”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. pȋtam (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
Further reading[edit]
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пытать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пытать”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 88
References[edit]
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pȳtàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 425: “v. (b) ‘ask, examine’”