Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pytati

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-Indo-European *pew-. Cognate with Latin putāre (“to cut off branches, estimate, consider, think”),[1] Tocharian A putk, as well as (without *-t-) Lithuanian pjáuti, Latin paviō, Ancient Greek παίω (paíō), Albanian fus (“insert, put (something) in”).

    Verb

    *pȳtàti[1]

    1. to ask, examine

    Inflection

    Conjugation of *pytati, *pyta, *pytajetь (?, -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)
    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

    • *jьzpytati
    • *napytati
    • *opytati
      • *opytanьje
      • *opytьnъ
      • *opytъ
      • *opytъka
    • *orzpytati
      • *orzpytanьje
      • *orzpytovati
      • *orzpytъ
    • *otъpytati
      • *otъpytanьje

    Descendants

    • East Slavic:
      • Old East Slavic: пꙑтати (pytati)
    • South Slavic:
      • Old Church Slavonic:
        Cyrillic: пꙑтати (pytati, “to examine”)
        Glagolitic: [Term?]
      • Bulgarian: пи́там (pítam, “to ask”)
      • Macedonian: пита (pita)
      • Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: пи́тати (“to ask”)
        Latin script: pítati (“to ask”)
      • Slovene: pítati (“to ask”) (tonal orthography)
    • West Slavic:

    Further reading

    • 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. (1999), “пытать”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 88

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pȳtàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 425: “v. (b) ‘ask, examine’”
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