Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pamętь

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 Pre-Slavic *pṓˀ-mintis, equivalent to *pa- +‎ Proto-Balto-Slavic *mintís. Grammatically a verbal noun of an early *pamęti +‎ *-tь, parallel to *pomьniti (“to remember”).

Noun

*pàmę̄tь f[1][2]

memory

Inflection

Declension of *pàmę̄tь (i-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*pàmę̄tь	*pàmę̄ti	*pàmę̄ti
Accusative	*pàmę̄tь	*pàmę̄ti	*pàmę̄ti
Genitive	*pàmę̄tī	pàmę̄tьju, pàmę̄ťu^*	pàmę̄tьjь, pàmę̄tī^*
Locative	*pàmę̄tī	pàmę̄tьju, pàmę̄ťu^*	*pàmę̄tьxъ
Dative	*pàmę̄ti	*pàmę̄tьma	*pàmę̄tьmъ
Instrumental	pàmę̄tьjǫ, pàmę̄ťǭ^*	*pàmę̄tьma	*pàmę̄tьmī
Vocative	*pamęti	*pàmę̄ti	*pàmę̄ti

^* 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

*pamętati

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: памѧть (pamętĭ)
  - Belarusian: па́мяць (pámjacʹ)
  - Russian: па́мять (pámjatʹ)
  - Ukrainian: па́м'ять (pámʺjatʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic: памѧть (pamętĭ)
  Glagolitic: ⱂⰰⰿⱔⱅⱐ (pamętĭ)
- Bulgarian: па́мет (pámet)
- Macedonian: па́мет (pámet)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: па̏ме̄т
  Latin: pȁmēt
- Slovene: pámet (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: pamět
  - Czech: paměť
    - Bohemian (Chod dialect): pamět
    - Moravian (Mistřice): pamňeť
- Old Polish: pamięć
  - Polish: pamięć
- Old Slovak: pamäť
  - Slovak: pamäť

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pàmętь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 390
Vowel length of *ę not indicated by Derksen, but it is expected and is in fact reflected in Serbo-Croatian.

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pàmętь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 390

[2] Vowel length of *ę not indicated by Derksen, but it is expected and is in fact reflected in Serbo-Croatian.