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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gatь
Proto-Slavic
Alternative reconstructions
- *gatъ
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gā́ˀtei (“to go, to proceed”), ultimately, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go”).
Noun
*gatь f
- causeway?
Declension
Declension of *gatь (i-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *gatь | *gati | *gati |
Accusative | *gatь | *gati | *gati |
Genitive | *gati | *gatьju, *gaťu* | *gatьjь, *gati* |
Locative | *gati | *gatьju, *gaťu* | *gatьxъ |
Dative | *gati | *gatьma | *gatьmъ |
Instrumental | *gatьjǫ, *gaťǫ* | *gatьma | *gatьmi |
Vocative | *gati | *gati | *gati |
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: гать (gatĭ)
- Belarusian: гаць (hacʹ)
- Russian: гать (gatʹ)
- Ukrainian: гать (hatʹ), гат (hat)
- Old East Slavic: гать (gatĭ)
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: га̏т m
- Latin: gȁt m
- Slovene: gȃt m (tonal orthography)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: hať
- Polish: gać (obsolete)
- Slovak: hať
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: gat
- Upper Sorbian: hat
- Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: gát
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gatь/*gatъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 108
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “гать”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress