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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sǫtь
Proto-Slavic
Alternative forms
- *sętь
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *sánti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sonti, verb form of *h₁ésti.
Cognate with Latin sunt.
Verb
*sǫtь
- third-person plural present of *byti
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: суть (sutĭ)
- Russian: суть f (sutʹ, “essence, core, gist”)
- Ukrainian: суть f (sutʹ, “essence, core, gist”)
- Old Novgorodian: соуть (sutĭ), су (su)
- Old East Slavic: суть (sutĭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: сѫтъ (sǫtŭ)
- Bulgarian: са (sa)
- Macedonian: се (se), сет (set) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: су, јѐсу
- Latin: su, jèsu
- Old Slovene: sunt[1]
- Slovene: so
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: sú (ſuu), jsú (gſuv), jsu (gſu/gſw/?zzu), jsut (yſut), sut (ſut/zut)[2]
- Czech: jsou
- Kashubian: są
- Old Polish: są (sø/?szø/?ssą)[3]
- Polish: są
- Slovak: sú
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: su[4]
- Lower Sorbian: su
- Old Czech: sú (ſuu), jsú (gſuv), jsu (gſu/gſw/?zzu), jsut (yſut), sut (ſut/zut)[2]
References
- “del Eſeſunt dela”, in Freising manuscripts, 1005±33, page 3 (2.1/158v), line 19
- Jan Gebauer (1886), “Tvaroslovné výklady a doklady ke slovesům třídy IV, VI a bezpříznakým. Kmeny praesentní bez příznaku.”, in Listy filologické a paedagogické, volume 13, Prague: Jednota českých filologů, Edvard Grégr, page 305
- K. Nitsch, editor (1954), “1. Być”, in Słownik staropolski (in Old Polish), volume 1, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 185
- Křesćan Pful, editor (1866), “2. Su”, in Łužiski serbski słownik / Lausitzisch Wendisches Wörterbuch (in German), Budyšin: Maćica Serbska, page 685
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