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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nitь
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *níʔtis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)nh₁itis, from *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, sew”). Cognate with Latvian nĩts (“(warp) thread”), Lithuanian nýtis (“(warp) thread”). Also cognate with Ancient Greek νέω (néō, “to spin”), Latin nēre (“to spin, weave”), Welsh nyddu (“to spin”), Sanskrit स्नायति (snāyati), Proto-Germanic *nēþlō and English needle.
Noun
*nìtь f[1]
- thread
Declension
Declension of *nìtь (i-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *nìtь | *nìti | *nìti |
| Accusative | *nìtь | *nìti | *nìti |
| Genitive | *nìtī | *nìtьju, *nìťu* | *nìtьjь, *nìtī* |
| Locative | *nìtī | *nìtьju, *nìťu* | *nìtьxъ |
| Dative | *nìti | *nìtьma | *nìtьmъ |
| Instrumental | *nìtьjǫ, *nìťǭ* | *nìtьma | *nìtьmī |
| Vocative | *niti | *nìti | *nìti |
* 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
- *nitěnica
- *nitěnъjь
- *nitěnъka
- *nitidla
- *nititi
- *nitьje
- *nitьnica
- *nitьnikъ
- *nitьnъ
- *nitьnъjь
- *nitъka
- *nitъkovъjь
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: нить (nitĭ)
- Belarusian: ніць (nicʹ)
- Russian: нить (nitʹ)
- Ukrainian: нить (nytʹ), ни́тка (nýtka)
- → Estonian: niit
- Old East Slavic: нить (nitĭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: нить (nitĭ)
- Glagolitic: ⱀⰻⱅⱐ (nitĭ)
- Bulgarian: нишка (niška) (with the suffix -ка (-ka))
- Macedonian: нишка (niška) (with the suffix -ка (-ka))
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ни̑т
- Latin: nȋt
- Slovene: nȉt (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: nit
- Czech: nit
- Polabian: nait
- Polish: nić
- Slovak: niť
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: niś
- Upper Sorbian: nić
- Old Czech: nit
Further reading
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nìtь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 353: “f. i (a) ‘thread’”
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nitь/*піtъ/*піtа/*піtjа”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 130
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “нить”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2003), “нить”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 4 (Н – П), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 91
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “nȉt”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si
- “Proto-Slavic/nitь”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “nitь niti niti”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 137f., 155, 188; PR 132)”