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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/svatъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
| PIE word |
|---|
| *swé |
If Latgalian svõts (“relative”) is a cognate (rather than a borrowing), then perhaps both inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *swṓtas. Ultimately, from a t-extension of Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”), whence also Lithuanian svetỹs, svẽčias (“guest”); Ancient Greek ἔτης (étēs, “clansman”).
Machek advocates for an original u-stem in view of related Old Czech svatvie (“wedlocking”) (< *svatvьje).
Noun
*svàtъ m[1][2]
- father of one of the newlyweds
- (by generalization) wedder, matchmaker (attendant of a wedding)
- Synonym: *svatьbařь
Declension
Declension of *svatъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *svatъ | *svàta | *svàti |
| Accusative | *svatъ | *svàta | *svàty |
| Genitive | *svàta | *svàtu | *svàtъ |
| Locative | *svàtě | *svàtu | *svàtě̄xъ |
| Dative | *svàtu | *svàtoma | *svàtomъ |
| Instrumental | *svàtъmь, *svàtomь* | *svàtoma | *svàtȳ |
| Vocative | *svàte | *svàta | *svàti |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *svati f, *svaxa f (feminine counterparts)
- *svatovati (“to wed”)
- *svatovьstvo (“matchmaking”)
- *svatьba (“wedding”)
- *svatovъ
- *svatovьnikъ m, *svatovьnica f (“matchmaker”)
Related terms
- *svojь (“own”)
- *svojatъ (“intrinsic to oneself”)
- *svakъ (“uncle, male relative”)
- *svekrъ (“father-in-law”), *svekry (“mother-in-law”)
- *sětiti (“to attend, to visit”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сватъ (svatŭ)
- Belarusian: сват (svat)
- Russian: сват (svat)
- Ukrainian: сват (svat)
- → Latvian: svāts
- → Lithuanian: svõtas
- Old East Slavic: сватъ (svatŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: сват (svat)
- Macedonian: сват (svat)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сва̏т
- Latin: svȁt
- Slovene: svȃt
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: svat
- Czech: svat
- Polabian: swat
- Old Polish: swat
- Polish: swat
- Slovak: svat
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: swat
- Old Czech: svat
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сват”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Račeva M., Todorov T., editor (2002), “сват”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 534
- “svečias”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “svatъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 158; PR 131; RPT 99, 101)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “svat”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *sva̋tъ”