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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/aviti
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to perceive, see, be aware of”).
Baltic cognates include Lithuanian ovytis (“to appear”). Wider cognates include Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”) and Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”).
Verb
*avìti[1][2]
- to show
Inflection
Conjugation of *aviti, *avi, *avitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm c)
Suffix: *-iti
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *avľenьje | *aviti | *avitъ | *avilъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *avľenъ | *avimъ |
| Active | *avľь | *avę |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *avixъ | *avi | *avi | *avľǫ | *aviši | *avitь |
| Dual | *avixově | *avista | *aviste | *avivě | *avita | *avite |
| Plural | *avixomъ | *aviste | *avišę | *avimъ | *avite | *avętь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *avľaaxъ | *avľaaše | *avľaaše | — | *avi | *avi |
| Dual | *avľaaxově | *avľaašeta | *avľaašete | *avivě | *avita | — |
| Plural | *avľaaxomъ | *avľaašete | *avľaaxǫ | *avimъ | *avite | — |
- Notes:
- (*)*avivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
Related terms
- *avьnъ (“obvious, apparent”)
- *avitъ (“revealed, apparent”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ꙗвити (javiti)
- Old Ruthenian: ꙗви́ти (javíti)
- Ukrainian: яви́ти (javýty)
- Russian: яви́ть (javítʹ)
- Old Ruthenian: ꙗви́ти (javíti)
- Old East Slavic: ꙗвити (javiti)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: авити (aviti)
- Bulgarian: явя́ (javjá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ја́вити
- Latin: jáviti
- Chakavian (Vrgada): jā̊vȉti
- Slovene: jáviti se
- West Slavic:
- Czech: jevit
- Polabian: vüöb-óvе
- Polish: jawić się
- Slovak: javiť
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: zjewić
- Lower Sorbian: zjawiś
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “яви́ть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*avìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 30: “v. ‘show’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “avjǫ -iti”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 240, 257; PR 140)”