|
|
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
Balto-Slavic innovation. Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ītjas. Cognates include Lithuanian -ytis, Latvian -ītis.
Suffix
*-iťь m
- Denominal, forming masculine attributables from action or agent nouns.
- *kъrma (“fodder”) / *kъrmľa (“breast milk”) + *-iťь → *kъrmiťь (“nursling”)
- *batę (“elder brother”) / *baťa (“father”) + *-iťь → *baťiťь (“son who resembles his father”)
- Denominal, forming masculine diminutives from masculine nouns.
- *kozьlъ (“billy goat”) + *-iťь → *kozьliťь (“kid goat”)
- *otrokъ (“boy”) + *-iťь → *otročiťь (“child”)
- *bogъ (“god”) + *-iťь → *božiťь (“juvenile god”)
- *pъta (“fowl”) + *-iťь → *pъtiťь (“birdie”)
- Denominal, forming patronyms and metronyms.
- Slovene Janež + *-iťь → Slovene Janežič
- Denominal, forming demonyms.
- Russian Москва (Moskva) + *-iťь → Russian москвич (moskvič)
- Slovene Podgora + *-iťь → Slovene Podgorčič
- *dręgy / *dręgъve (“swamp”) + *-iťь → Russian Дреговичи (Dregoviči, “East Slavic tribe”)
- *obъ Odrě (“around the Oder”) + *-iťь → *obodriťь (“Obotrites”)
- Deadjectival, denoting a carrier of a property.
- *golъ (“naked”) + *-iťь → *goliťь (“something naked”)
- *bělъ (“white”) + *-iťь → *běliťь (“something white”)
- (by extension) Denoting a carrier of a property but with a diminutive meaning through a parallel word formation from deadjectival nouns and adjectives.
- *moldъ (“young”) / *moldę (“youngling”) + *-iťь → *moldiťь (“youngling”)
Declension
Declension of *-iťь (soft o-stem)
|
|
singular
|
dual
|
plural
|
| nominative
|
*-iťь
|
*-iťa
|
*-iťi
|
| genitive
|
*-iťa
|
*-iťu
|
*-iťь
|
| dative
|
*-iťu
|
*-iťema
|
*-iťemъ
|
| accusative
|
*-iťь
|
*-iťa
|
*-iťę̇
|
| instrumental
|
*-iťьmь, *-iťemь*
|
*-iťema
|
*-iťi
|
| locative
|
*-iťi
|
*-iťu
|
*-iťixъ
|
| vocative
|
*-iťu
|
*-iťa
|
*-iťi
|
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
Proto-Slavic terms suffixed with *-iťь
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: -ичь (-ičĭ)
- Belarusian: -іч (-ič)
- Russian: -ич (-ič)
- Ukrainian: -ич (-yč), -їч (-jič), -іч (-ič)
- Old Novgorodian: -иць (-icʹĭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Glagolitic script: -ⰹⱋⱐ (-ištĭ)
- Old Cyrillic script: -ищь (-ištĭ)
- Bulgarian: -ич (-ič), -ичко (-ičko)
- Macedonian: -иќ (-iḱ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: -ић
- Latin script: -ić
- Slovene: -ič
- West Slavic:
- Czech: -ic
- Kashubian: -ëc
- Old Polish: -ic, -yc
- Slovak: -ic
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: -ic
- Upper Sorbian: -ic
References
- Šekli, Matej (2012), “Besedotvorni pomeni samostalniških izpeljank v praslovanščini”, in Philological Studies[1] (in Slovene), volume 10, number 1, Skopje, Perm, Ljubljana, Zagreb, pages 115–32