Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ustiti

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

Cognate with Lithuanian áusčioti (to gossip, to talk nonsense), Latvian aũšât (to chatter).

Synchronically, probably denominal[1] from *usta (mouth) +‎ *-iti, although the prosody does not technically match (the verb has a fixed acute intonation, while the noun is circumflex).

Verb

*ùstiti impf[1]

  1. to agitate, to exhort

Conjugation

Derived terms

prefixed verbs

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: оустити (ustiti)
    • Slovene: ústiti (tonal orthography)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ustiti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 509