Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gnesti

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

    From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gnestei, from Proto-Indo-European *gnét-ti, from *gnet-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *knudaną.

    Verb

    *gnestì impf[1][2]

    1. to press
    2. to knead

    Inflection

    Descendants

    • East Slavic:
      • Old East Slavic: гнести (gnesti)
    • South Slavic:
      • Old Church Slavonic:
        Old Cyrillic script: гнести (gnesti)
        Glagolitic script: ⰳⱀⰵⱄⱅⰻ (gnesti)
      • Bulgarian: гнетя̀ (gnetjà)
      • Macedonian: гнете (gnete)
      • Serbo-Croatian:
        Serbo-Croatian: гњѐсти
        Serbo-Croatian: gnjèsti
      • Slovene: gnésti (tonal orthography)
    • West Slavic:
      • Old Czech: hňésti
      • Polabian: gnest
      • Old Polish:
      • Pomeranian:
        • Kashubian: gniesc
        • Slovincian: gnjêsc
      • Slovak: hniesť

    Further reading

    • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “гнету́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
    • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999), “гнести́”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 195
    • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gnesti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 165

    References

    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*gnestì”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 168:v. (c) ‘knead, press’
    2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001), “gnesti: gnetǫ gnetetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c trykke (PR 139)