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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dumati
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Origin disputed, theory of Germanic borrowing is not confirmed and heavily contested.Either from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke”), akin to Proto-Slavic *duti (“to blow, to inflate”), *dymъ (“smoke”) ora loan from a reflex of Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (“to judge, think”), or derived from *duma, nonetheless from Germanic. The exact donor language cannot be ascertained.
Verb
*dumati impf
- to think
Conjugation
Conjugation of *dumati, *duma, *dumajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Suffix: *-ati
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *dumanьje | *dumati | *dumatъ | *dumalъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *dumanъ | *dumajemъ |
| Active | *dumavъ | *dumaję |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *dumaxъ | *duma | *duma | *dumajǫ | *dumaješi | *dumajetь |
| Dual | *dumaxově | *dumasta | *dumaste | *dumajevě | *dumajeta | *dumajete |
| Plural | *dumaxomъ | *dumaste | *dumašę | *dumajemъ | *dumajete | *dumajǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *dumaaxъ | *dumaaše | *dumaaše | — | *dumaji | *dumaji |
| Dual | *dumaaxově | *dumaašeta | *dumaašete | *dumajivě | *dumajita | — |
| Plural | *dumaaxomъ | *dumaašete | *dumaaxǫ | *dumajimъ | *dumajite | — |
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: думати (dumati)
- Belarusian: ду́маць (dúmacʹ)
- Russian: ду́мать (dúmatʹ)
- Ukrainian: ду́мати (dúmaty)
- Old East Slavic: думати (dumati)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ду́мам (dúmam, “I say”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ду̏мати (“to think, to dream (of)”)
- Latin: dȕmati (“to think, to dream (of)”)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: dumat (“to muse”)
- Polish: dumać (“to muse, to ponder”)
Non-Slavic:
- → Latvian: duõmât (“to think, to suppose”)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “думать”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff (2013), The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic, 82.