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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pečatь
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably a contamination of an earlier *pečětь (“brand”), formed as *pekti (“to bake, to cook”) + *-ětь, under the influence of an Oghur term (per BER) surviving as Chuvash пичет (pič̬et, “seal, cachet”).
Noun
pečàtь m[1][2]
- seal, stamp
- Synonym: *žigъ
Inflection
Declension of *pečatь (i-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *pečatь | *pečati | *pečatьjē, *pečaťē* |
| Accusative | *pečatь | *pečati | *pečati |
| Genitive | *pečatī | *pečatьju, *pečaťu* | *pečatьjь, *pečatī* |
| Locative | *pečatī | *pečatьju, *pečaťu* | *pečatьxъ |
| Dative | *pečati | *pečatьma | *pečatьmъ |
| Instrumental | *pečatьmь | *pečatьma | *pečatьmī |
| Vocative | *pečati | *pečati | *pečatьjē, *pečaťē* |
* 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
- *pečatati (“to print”)
- *pečatьlěti (“to impress”)
- *vъpečatьlenьje (“impression”)
- *vъpečatьlitelьnъ (“impressive”)
- *otъpečatьkъ (“imprint”)
- *pečatьnъ (“printed”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: печать (pečatĭ)
- Belarusian: печа́ць (pječácʹ)
- Russian: печа́ть f (pečátʹ)
- Ukrainian: печа́ть (pečátʹ)
- Old East Slavic: печать (pečatĭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: печать (pečatĭ)
- ⇒ Romanian: pecete
- ⇒ Hungarian: pecsét
- Bulgarian: печа́т (pečát)
- Macedonian: печат (pečat)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пèчат
- Latin: pèčat
- Slovene: pečȃt
- Old Church Slavonic: печать (pečatĭ)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: pečět
- Czech: pečeť f
- Kashubian: piéczec, piéczac (archaic or dialectal)
- Polish: pieczęć f (with unexpected -ę-)
- Slovak: реčať f
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: рjеčаt
- Old Czech: pečět
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “печать”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Duridanov I., Račeva M., Todorov T., editor (1996), “печа̀т”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 212
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “pečatь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “pečȃt”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*peča̋tь”