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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/snuti
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *snauˀ-, from Proto-Indo-European *snewH-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *snewaną (whence Gothic 𐍃𐌽𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (sniwan, “to hurry”), Old Norse snúa (“to wind, to twist, to warp”)) and akin to Latvian snaujis (“noose”).
Verb
*snùti[1][2][3]
- to warp (yarn, thread)
Inflection
Conjugation of *snuti, *snu, *snovetь (?, -V/C-, s-aorist, accent paradigm c)
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *snutьje | *snuti | *snutъ | *snulъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *snutъ | *snovomъ |
| Active | *snuvъ | *snovy |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *snuxъ | *snu | *snu | *snovǫ | *snoveši | *snovetь |
| Dual | *snuxově | *snusta | *snuste | *snovevě | *snoveta | *snovete |
| Plural | *snuxomъ | *snuste | *snušę | *snovemъ | *snovete | *snovǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *snověaxъ | *snověaše | *snověaše | — | *snovi | *snovi |
| Dual | *snověaxově | *snověašeta | *snověašete | *snověvě | *snověta | — |
| Plural | *snověaxomъ | *snověašete | *snověaxǫ | *snověmъ | *snověte | — |
Alternative forms
- *snovàti
Related terms
- *osnòvā (“base, foundation”)
Descendants
- Church Slavonic: сноути (snuti) (Russian)
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сновати (snovati)
- Belarusian: снава́ць (snavácʹ)
- Russian: снова́ть (snovátʹ)
- Ukrainian: снува́ти (snuváty), снова́ти (snováty), сну́ти (snúty)
- Old East Slavic: сновати (snovati)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: снова́ (snová)
- Macedonian: снове (snove)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сно̀вати
- Latin: snòvati
- Slovene: snúti, snováti (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: snúti
- Czech: snout, snovat
- Kashubian: snëc, snovac
- Polish: snuć, snować (archaic)
- Slovak: snovať, snuť
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: snować
- Lower Sorbian: snowaś, snuś
- Old Czech: snúti
Further reading
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “снова́ть”, 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 182
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “снова́ть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Dybo, Vladimir A. (2000) Морфонологизованные парадигматические акцентные системы: Типология и генезис [Morphophonologized paradigmatic accent systems: Typology and genesis] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Языки русской культуры, →ISBN, page 231
- Miguel Villanueva Svensson (2011), “The accentuation of the infinitive type Latv. kal̃t, Sl. *kőlti and the development of Indo-European molō-presents in Balto-Slavic”, in Baltistica, ISSN 2345-0045, page 311
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*snuti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457: “v. ‘warp’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “snuti: snovǫ snovetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 204, 206, 238)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “snúti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*snűti”