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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sęgnǫti
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From sęg- + *-nǫti. See *sęťi for etymology.
Verb
*sę̄gnǫ̀ti
- to reach for, to attain
Inflection
Conjugation of *sęgnǫti, *sęže, *sęgnetь (?, -C/n-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
---|---|---|---|
*sęženьje | *sęgnǫti | *sęgnǫtъ | *sęglъ |
Participles | ||
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Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *sęženъ | *sęgnomъ |
Active | *sęgъ | *sęgny |
Aorist | Present | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *sęg(ox)ъ | *sęže | *sęže | *sęgnǫ | *sęgneši | *sęgnetь |
Dual | *sęg(ox)ově | *sęg(e/os)ta | *sęg(e/os)te | *sęgnevě | *sęgneta | *sęgnete |
Plural | *sęg(ox)omъ | *sęg(e/os)te | *sęgǫ, *sęgošę | *sęgnemъ | *sęgnete | *sęgnǫtь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *sęgněaxъ | *sęgněaše | *sęgněaše | — | *sęgni | *sęgni |
Dual | *sęgněaxově | *sęgněašeta | *sęgněašete | *sęgněvě | *sęgněta | — |
Plural | *sęgněaxomъ | *sęgněašete | *sęgněaxǫ | *sęgněmъ | *sęgněte | — |
- Notes:
- Aorist *sęgeste ⇒ *sęžeste, ...
Related terms
- *sęťi (“to reach for”)
- *sę̀gati, *sę̀dzati (“to reach for”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: сягну́ць (sjahnúcʹ, “to reach”)
- Russian: сягну́ть (sjagnútʹ, “to reach for, to attain”) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: сягну́ти (sjahnúty, “to reach, to grasp”)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: присѧгнѫти (prisęgnǫti, “to touch”), other prefixed verbs
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: се́гна (ségna, “to extend a hand”)
- Macedonian: сегне (segne, “to reach”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: се́гнути (“to reach”); dialectal се̏гнути се (“to reach for”)
- Latin: ségnuti (“to reach”); dialectal sȅgnuti se (“to reach for”)
- Slovene: sẹ́gniti (“to reach for”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. sẹ̑gnem (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: sáhnout (“to touch, to reach for”)
- Polish: sięgnąć (“to reach for, to reach”)
- Slovak: siahnuť (“to reach for”)
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: dosahnyć
- Lower Sorbian: segnuś
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sę̄gnǫ̀ti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 449
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сяга́ть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress