Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jьmati

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jьmati

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

From *jьmǫ +‎ *-ati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-.

Verb

*jьmàti impf[1][2]

1. to take
2. to have

Conjugation

Conjugation of *jьmati, *jьma, *emľetь (impf., -a/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*jьmanьje	*jьmati	*jьmatъ	*jьmalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*jьmanъ	*emľemъ
Active	*jьmavъ	*emľę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*jьmaxъ	*jьma	*jьma	*emľǫ	*emľeši	*emľetь
Dual	*jьmaxově	*jьmasta	*jьmaste	*emľevě	*emľeta	*emľete
Plural	*jьmaxomъ	*jьmaste	*jьmašę	*emľemъ	*emľete	*emľǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*jьmaaxъ	*jьmaaše	*jьmaaše	—	*emľi	*emľi
Dual	*jьmaaxově	*jьmaašeta	*jьmaašete	*emľivě	*emľita	—
Plural	*jьmaaxomъ	*jьmaašete	*jьmaaxǫ	*emľimъ	*emľite	—

Derived terms

• *zajьmati

Related terms

• *jьměti
• *ęti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: имати (imati)[3][4][5]
    • Russian: има́ть (imátʹ) (archaic)
    • Ukrainian: ма́ти (máty)
  • Old Novgorodian: ѥмати (jemati)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: имати (imati)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: и́мам (ímam)
  • Macedonian: има (ima)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ѝмати, јѐмати

    Latin: ìmati, jìmati, jèmati

  • Slovene: jemáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jímati
    • Czech: jímat
  • Polabian: jéimat
  • Old Polish: imać
    • Polish: imać
  • Slovak: mať, jímať
  • Slovincian: jĩmăc[6]
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: jimać[7]
    • Lower Sorbian: jimaś[8]

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*jьmati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 224
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “емлю”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. (1993), “иметь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 344
• В.Б. Крысько (2014), “Маргиналии к "Этимологическому словарю славянских языков" (вып. 34-38)”, in Вопросы языкознания, issue 1, Moscow: Наука, page 105

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*jьmàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 211: “v. ‘take’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “jьmati: [jemjǫ jemjetь]”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA) / b/c (PR) tage (SA 204; PR 136, 139)”
3. Barkhudarov, S. G., editor (1979), “имати”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11–17th cent.] (in Russian), issue 6 (зипунъ – иянуарий), Moscow: Nauka, page 225
4. Иоанъ, editor (1076), “не ѥмли”, in Изборник 1076 года [Izbornik of 1076], page 296 (148.5), line 2
5. Лаврентеи, editor (1377), “имаху”, in Повѣсти времѧньнꙑх лѣ т [Laurentian Codex], 9th century, page (leaf) 7, line 8
6. Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “jĩmăc”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 398
7. Křesćan Pful, editor (1866), “jimać”, in Łužiski serbski słownik / Lausitzisch Wendisches Wörterbuch (in German), Budyšin: Maćica Serbska, page 240
8. Muka, Arnošt (1921), “jimaś”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), volume 1, St. Petersburg: ОРЯС РАН, page 553; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008