Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/peťi

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/peťi

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *pektei, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti. Cognate with Lithuanian kèpti, Latvian cept (via metathesis), Proto-Celtic *kʷokʷeti, Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō (whence English cook from Latin coquō), Proto-Indo-Iranian *páčati, Albanian pjek.

Akin to the Vulgar Latin loanword копторъ (koptorŭ, “cooker, hovel”) in demotic Church Slavonic (spec. Middle Bulgarian).

Verb

peťì impf (perfective *peknǫti)[1][2][3]

1. to bake
2. (reflexive) to get motivated, to put effort into, to care for

Conjugation

Conjugation of *peťi, *peče, *pečetь (impf., -C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm c)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*pečenьje	*peťi	*peťь	*peklъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*pečenъ	*pekomъ
Active	*pekъ	*peky

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*pek(ox)ъ	*peče	*peče	*pekǫ	*pečeši	*pečetь
Dual	*pek(ox)ově	*pek(e/os)ta	*pek(e/os)te	*pečevě	*pečeta	*pečete
Plural	*pek(ox)omъ	*pek(e/os)te	*pekǫ, *pekošę	*pečemъ	*pečete	*pekǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*pečaaxъ	*pečaaše	*pečaaše	—	*pьci	*pьci
Dual	*pečaaxově	*pečaašeta	*pečaašete	*pьcěvě	*pьcěta	—
Plural	*pečaaxomъ	*pečaašete	*pečaaxǫ	*pьcěmъ	*pьcěte	—

Notes:
• Aorist *pekeste ⇒ *pečeste, ...

• Intensive/iterative stem: *-pičati

Derived terms

• *jьzpeťi
• *zapeťi
  • *zapekъ (“constipation”)
• *perpeťi
• *pripeťi
  • *pripekъ (“sun-bathe”)
• *napeťi
• *opeťi
  • *opeka (“guardianship”)
  • *opekunъ (“guardian”)
• *orzpeťi
• *otъpeťi
• *sъpeťi
• *pekъ (“heat, fervor”)
• *pekařь (“baker”)
• *peťь (“oven (place)”)
• *pьklo (“fire elemental, scorch”)
• *pečьka (“oven (device)”)
• *pečenь (“baking, something baked”)
• *pečenъ (“baked”)
• *pečьkъ (“fine, tiny, seared”)
• *pečivo (“baked product, bread”)
• *pečatь (“seal, stamp”) (partially)
• *pečalь (“burden, sorrow”)
  • *pečalьba (“gain”)
• *pečurъka (“mushroom Agaricus”)

Related terms

• *potъ (“sweat”)
• *peťera (“cave”) (possibly)

Descendants

• East Slavic: печи (peči)
  • Belarusian: пячы́ (pjačý), пекці́ (pjekcí)
  • Russian: печь (pečʹ)
  • Rusyn: печі́ (pečí)
  • Ukrainian: пекти́ (pektý), печи́ (pečý)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: пещи (pešti)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⰵⱋⰹ (pešti)

  • Bulgarian: пека́ (peká)
  • Macedonian: пече (peče)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: пе̏ћи

    Latin: pȅći

  • Slovene: péči (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: péci, péct
  • Polabian: pict
  • Polish: piec
  • Silesian: piyc
  • Slovak: piecť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: pjec
    • Lower Sorbian: pjac

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пеку”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. (1993), “печь¹”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 29
• Duridanov I., Račeva M., Todorov T., editor (1996), “пека, пекна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 130

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pektì”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 393
2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “péči”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*peťi̋, sed. *pȅkǫ”
3. Olander, Thomas (2001), “pekti: pekǫ pečetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c bage (PR 139)”