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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sętь
Proto-Slavic
Alternative forms
- *sǫtь
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sénti, verb form of *h₁ésti.
Cognate withSanskrit सन्ति (sánti),Ancient Greek εἰσί (eisí), Doric Greek ἐντί (entí),Umbrian sent,Oscan set,Old Irish it,Proto-Germanic *sindi.
Verb
*sętь
- third-person plural present of *byti
Descendants
- Church Slavonic: сѧтъ (sętŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Macedonian: сет (set), ?се (se)
- West Slavic:
- Slovak: sa
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “суть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress