< Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/bī́ˀtei
Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰíh₂-ti, zero-grade present of *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike”).[1]
Verb
*bī́ˀtei[2]
- to beat
Inflection
Fixed accent, j-present *bíjeti.
Descendants
- Proto-Slavic: *bìti (see there for further descendants)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 41
- Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 222: “*bi̍H-tēi”