Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gaťę

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Most conveniently explained from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go, to walk around”) which was displaced by Proto-Slavic *jьti but is retained in dialectal Lithuanian góti apart from some old derivations. Stankiewicz, before this was understood, proposed *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab”) found as Proto-Slavic *gabati (“to grab”) meaning in Lithuanian góbti also “to wrap, to cover”, however from the first root there is *gatь (“a causeway through swamps”), and suffixed +‎ *-ja one had therefore (one leg of a pair or trinity of) rain trousers for walking through swamps, which is particularly likely since one knows that the Slavs before their expansion dwelt in the Polish swamps.

Noun

*gaťę f pl

drawers

Inflection

Declension of *gaťę̇ (soft a-stem, plural only)

	Plural
Nominative	*gaťę̇
Accusative	*gaťę̇
Genitive	*gaťь
Locative	gaťasъ, gaťaxъ^*
Dative	*gaťamъ
Instrumental	*gaťami
Vocative	*gaťę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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).

Derived terms

*gaťьnikъ (“girdle, braces”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *гачѣ (*gačě) if plural and *гачи (*gači) if dual
  - Russian: га́чи (gáči), га́ти (gáti)
    - → Finnish: kaatiot
  - Ukrainian: га́чі (háči)
South Slavic:
- Russian Church Slavonic: гащѧ (gaštę)
  - → Russian: га́щи (gášči)
- Bulgarian: га́щи (gášti), гащя́ (gaštjá)
- Macedonian: гаќи (gaḱi)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: га̏ће
  Latin: gȁće, gȁća f sg
  - → Hungarian: gatya
    → Austrian German: Gate
- Slovene: gȃče, gȃte
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: háce
  - Czech: hace
- Old Polish: gace
  - Polish: gacie
    - (Ślemień): gaće
      - → Czech: gatě, gaťe, katě
        ⇒ gaťky
      - → Slovak: gate, gaťe,
        ⇒ gatky
        → Yiddish: גאַטקעס‎ (gatkes)
    - → Ukrainian: ґа́чі (gáči), ґа́ці (gáci)
      - → English: gotchies, gotch (see it for further variants)
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: haca
  - Lower Sorbian: gaca