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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.
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *sęg- + *-nǫti.[1]
Verb
*sę̄gnǫ̀ti
- to reach for, to attain
Inflection
Conjugation of *sęgnǫti, *sęže, *sęgnetь (?, -C/n-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
| Verbal noun
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Infinitive
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Supine
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L-participle
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| *sęženьje
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*sęgnǫti
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*sęgnǫtъ
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*sęglъ
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Participles
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| Tense
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Past
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Present
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| Passive
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*sęženъ
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*sęgnomъ
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| Active
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*sęgъ
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*sęgny
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Aorist
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Present
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| Person
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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| Singular
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*sęg(ox)ъ |
*sęže |
*sęže
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*sęgnǫ |
*sęgneši |
*sęgnetь
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| Dual
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*sęg(ox)ově |
*sęg(e/os)ta |
*sęg(e/os)te
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*sęgnevě |
*sęgneta |
*sęgnete
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| Plural
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*sęg(ox)omъ |
*sęg(e/os)te |
*sęgǫ, *sęgošę
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*sęgnemъ |
*sęgnete |
*sęgnǫtь
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Imperfect
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Imperative
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| Person
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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| Singular
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*sęgněaxъ |
*sęgněaše |
*sęgněaše
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*sęgni |
*sęgni
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| Dual
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*sęgněaxově |
*sęgněašeta |
*sęgněašete
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*sęgněvě |
*sęgněta |
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| Plural
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*sęgněaxomъ |
*sęgněašete |
*sęgněaxǫ
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*sęgněmъ |
*sęgněte |
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Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: сягну́ць (sjahnúcʹ, “to reach”)
- Russian: сягну́ть (sjagnútʹ, “to reach for, to attain”) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: сягну́ти (sjahnúty, “to reach, to grasp”)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: присѧгнѫти (prisęgnǫti, “to touch”), other prefixed verbs
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: се́гна (ségna, “to extend a hand”)
- Macedonian: сегне (segne, “to reach”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: се́гнути (“to reach”); dialectal се̏гнути се (“to reach for”)
- Latin: ségnuti (“to reach”); dialectal sȅgnuti se (“to reach for”)
- Slovene: sẹ́gniti (“to reach for”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. sẹ̑gnem (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: sáhnúti
- Czech: sáhnout (“to touch, to reach for”)
- Polish: sięgnąć (“to reach for, to reach”)
- Slovak: siahnuť (“to reach for”)
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: dosahnyć
- Lower Sorbian: segnuś
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sę̄gnǫ̀ti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 449
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сяга́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress