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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kasati
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From the same root as *česàti (“to scratch, to comb”). Cognate with Lithuanian kasýti (“to scratch constantly”), Latvian kasît (“to scratch, to rake, to plane”). See *česàti for further cognates.
Verb
*kasati impf
- to touch? to trot? to fold?
Inflection
Conjugation of *kasati, *kasa, *kasajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Suffix: *-ati
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
---|---|---|---|
*kasanьje | *kasati | *kasatъ | *kasalъ |
Participles | ||
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Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *kasanъ | *kasajemъ |
Active | *kasavъ | *kasaję |
Aorist | Present | |||||
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Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *kasaxъ | *kasa | *kasa | *kasajǫ | *kasaješi | *kasajetь |
Dual | *kasaxově | *kasasta | *kasaste | *kasajevě | *kasajeta | *kasajete |
Plural | *kasaxomъ | *kasaste | *kasašę | *kasajemъ | *kasajete | *kasajǫtь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *kasaaxъ | *kasaaše | *kasaaše | — | *kasaji | *kasaji |
Dual | *kasaaxově | *kasaašeta | *kasaašete | *kasajivě | *kasajita | — |
Plural | *kasaaxomъ | *kasaašete | *kasaaxǫ | *kasajimъ | *kasajite | — |
Related terms
- *česàti (“to scratch, to comb”)
- *kosnǫti (“to touch?”)
- *kosa (“(braided) hair”)
- *kosmъ (“lock of hair, tuft”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: касатисꙗ (kasatisja, “to touch, to concern”) (11th century)
- Belarusian: каса́цца (kasácca, “to touch”) (dialectal)
- Russian: каса́ться (kasátʹsja, “to touch, to concern”), 1sg. каса́юсь (kasájusʹ)
- Old Ukrainian: каса́тися (kasátisja, “to touch, to use”) (18th century)
- Old East Slavic: касатисꙗ (kasatisja, “to touch, to concern”) (11th century)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: касати сѧ (kasati sę, “to touch”), 1sg. касаѭ сѧ (kasajǫ sę)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: каса́е се (kasáe se, “(it) concerns”, 3sg.)
- Macedonian: каса (kasa, “to trot”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ка̏сати (“to trot, to walk quickly”), 1sg. ка̏са̄м
- Latin: kȁsati (“to trot, to walk quickly”), 1sg. kȁsām
- Slovene: kasati (“to walk while shaking one's head (of horses)”), 1sg. kasam
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: kasati (“to roll up”)
- Czech: kasat (“to roll up”)
- Old Polish: kasać (“to fold back, to tuck up”)
- Polish: kasać (“to grab, to prepare, to climb, to aspire”) (obsolete or dialectal)
- Slovak: kasať (“to roll up”)
- Slovincian: kãsăc
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: kasać (“to roll up”)
- Lower Sorbian: kasaś (“to roll up, to lift”)
- Old Czech: kasati (“to roll up”)
References
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “каса́ться”, 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 384
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kasati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 221
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kasati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 9 (*jьz – *klenьje), Moscow: Nauka, page 155
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “каса́ться”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress