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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ašutь
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Unclear origin. Possibly from *a- + *šutъ + *-ь.
Adjective
*ašutь
- something that looks like a joke
Derived terms
adjectives
- *ašutьnъ
Related terms
adjectives
- (possibly) *šustrъ (“quick, agile”)
nouns
- (possibly) *šutъka f (“joke”)
verbs
- (possibly) *šustati pf
- (possibly) *šustnǫti impf
- (possibly) *šutiti impf (“to joke, to jest”)
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: ашоуть (ašutĭ), ашоутъ (ašutŭ), ашють (ašjutĭ), ашютъ (ašjutŭ)
- Glagolitic: ⰰⱎⱆⱅⱐ (ašutĭ), ⰰⱎⱆⱅⱏ (ašutŭ), ⰰⱎⱓⱅⱐ (ašjutĭ), ⰰⱎⱓⱅⱏ (ašjutŭ)
- Church Slavonic: ашоуть (ašutĭ), ашють (ašjutĭ), ошоуть (ošutĭ), ошють (ošjutĭ), ошоути (ošuti) (Russian recension)
- Church Slavonic: ашоуть (ašutĭ) (Serbian recension)
- → Old East Slavic: ашуть (ašutĭ) (11-14ᵗʰ c.)
- Middle Russian: ашють (ašutʹ) (circa 1431)
- Bulgarian: ашут (ašut) (dialectal)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jěšut, jěšuť
- Slovak: jašo
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*ašutь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 89
- Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “ašutь”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: National Ossoliński Institute, page 162
- Anikin, A. E. (2007), “ашють”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 1 (а – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 355
- Vasmer, Max (1964), “ашуть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – д), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, 2nd edition, Moscow: Progress, page 98