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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pytati
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pew-. Cognate with Latin putāre (“to cut off branches, estimate, consider, think”), Tocharian A putk, as well as (without *-t-) Lithuanian piáuti, Latin paviō, Ancient Greek παίω (paíō), Albanian fus (“insert, put (something) in”).
Verb
*pȳtàti[1]
- to ask, examine
Inflection
Conjugation of *pytati, *pyta, *pytajetь (?, -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)
Suffix: *-ati
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *pytanьje | *pytati | *pytatъ | *pytalъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *pytanъ | *pytajemъ |
| Active | *pytavъ | *pytaję |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *pytaxъ | *pyta | *pyta | *pytajǫ | *pytaješi | *pytajetь |
| Dual | *pytaxově | *pytasta | *pytaste | *pytajevě | *pytajeta | *pytajete |
| Plural | *pytaxomъ | *pytaste | *pytašę | *pytajemъ | *pytajete | *pytajǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *pytaaxъ | *pytaaše | *pytaaše | — | *pytaji | *pytaji |
| Dual | *pytaaxově | *pytaašeta | *pytaašete | *pytajivě | *pytajita | — |
| Plural | *pytaaxomъ | *pytaašete | *pytaaxǫ | *pytajimъ | *pytajite | — |
Derived terms
- *jьzpytati
- *napytati
- *opytati
- *opytanьje
- *opytъ
- *opytъka
- *opytьnъ
- *orzpytati
- *orzpytanьje
- *orzpytovati
- *orzpytъ
- *otъpytati
- *otъpytanьje
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: пꙑтати (pytati)
- Belarusian: пыта́ць (pytácʹ)
- Russian: пыта́ть (pytátʹ, “to torture, (colloquial) to try”), 1sg. пыта́ю (pytáju)
- Ukrainian: пита́ти (pytáty)
- Old East Slavic: пꙑтати (pytati)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: пꙑтати (pytati, “to examine”), 1sg. пꙑтаѭ (pytajǫ)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: пи́там (pítam, “to ask”)
- Macedonian: пита (pita)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пи́тати (“to ask”)
- Latin: pítati (“to ask”)
- Chakavian (Vrgada): pītȁti (“to ask”), 2sg. pĩtå̄š
- Chakavian (Orbanići): pītȁt (“to ask, to request”), 1sg. pĩtan
- Slovene: pítati (“to ask”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. pȋtam (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: ptát
- Moravian (Mistřice): pítat
- Kashubian: pëtac
- Polish: pytać
- Slovak: pýtať (“to ask”)
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: pytać
- Lower Sorbian: pytaś
- Czech: ptát
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пытать”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “пытать”, 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 88
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pȳtàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 425: “v. (b) ‘ask, examine’”