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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prostiti
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *prostъ + *-iti.
Verb
*prostiti
- to forgive
- to release
Inflection
Conjugation of *prostiti, *prosti, *prostitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Suffix: *-iti
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
---|---|---|---|
*prosťenьje | *prostiti | *prostitъ | *prostilъ |
Participles | ||
---|---|---|
Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *prosťenъ | *prostimъ |
Active | *prosťь | *prostę |
Aorist | Present | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *prostixъ | *prosti | *prosti | *prosťǫ | *prostiši | *prostitь |
Dual | *prostixově | *prostista | *prostiste | *prostivě | *prostita | *prostite |
Plural | *prostixomъ | *prostiste | *prostišę | *prostimъ | *prostite | *prostętь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *prosťaaxъ | *prosťaaše | *prosťaaše | — | *prosti | *prosti |
Dual | *prosťaaxově | *prosťaašeta | *prosťaašete | *prostivě | *prostita | — |
Plural | *prosťaaxomъ | *prosťaašete | *prosťaaxǫ | *prostimъ | *prostite | — |
- Notes:
- (*)*prostivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: прости́ть (prostítʹ)
- Ukrainian: прости́ти (prostýty)
- South Slavic
- Old Church Slavonic: простити (prostiti)
- Bulgarian: простя (prostja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: про̀стити
- Latin: pròstiti
- Slovene: prostíti (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic
- Czech: prostit
- Old Polish: prościć
- Polish: prościć (obsolete)
- Silesian: prościć
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “простить”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress