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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/teti
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Proto-Slavic
Alternative forms
- *tepti
- *tepsti
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *teptei, with a regular loss of medial *-p- in the infinitive stem due to the law of open syllables. p has been restored in many of the daughters by analogy with the present stem, and s has been inserted into the infinitive in many of the daughters by analogy with other verbs in -sti. Compare *greti (“to dig, to rake”).
Cognate with Lithuanian tèpti (“to smear, to grease, to soil”) (1sg. tepù), Latvian tept (“to smear, to grease”) (1sg. tepju).
- Per Derksen, only Balto-Slavic, without other Indo-European cognates.
- Vasmer adds as cognates Lithuanian tapýti (“to sculpt”) (1sg. tараũ), Lithuanian tapnóti, tapšnóti (“to pat with the hand”). In addition, he asserts that dialectal Russian тепсти́ (tepstí, “to pull, to drag”) is etymologically distinct, related to Lithuanian tem̃pti (“to pull”) (1sg. tempiù), temptýva (“string”), Russian тетива́ (tetivá, “string”), Lithuanian tampýti (“to pull”) (1sg. tampaũ).
Verb
*teti
- to beat
Conjugation
Conjugation of *teti, *tepe, *tepetь (?, -C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *tepenьje | *teti | *tetъ | *teplъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *tepenъ | *tepomъ |
| Active | *tepъ | *tepy |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *tep(ox)ъ | *tepe | *tepe | *tepǫ | *tepeši | *tepetь |
| Dual | *tep(ox)ově | *tep(e/os)ta | *tep(e/os)te | *tepevě | *tepeta | *tepete |
| Plural | *tep(ox)omъ | *tep(e/os)te | *tepǫ, *tepošę | *tepemъ | *tepete | *tepǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *tepěaxъ | *tepěaše | *tepěaše | — | *tepi | *tepi |
| Dual | *tepěaxově | *tepěašeta | *tepěašete | *tepěvě | *tepěta | — |
| Plural | *tepěaxomъ | *tepěašete | *tepěaxǫ | *tepěmъ | *tepěte | — |
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: тети (teti)
- Russian: тепти́ (teptí), тети́ (tetí) (Pskov dialect), тепсти́ (tepstí) (Vologda dialect), тёпать (tjópatʹ) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: тепти́ (teptý)
- Old East Slavic: тети (teti)
- South-Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: тети (teti)
- Glagolitic: ⱅⰵⱅⰹ (teti)
- Bulgarian: те́пам (tépam)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: те̏псти
- Latin: tȅpsti
- Slovene: tépsti (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: tepat
- Polish: ciepać (dialectal)
- Silesian: ciepać
- Slovak: tepať
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: ćepać
- Lower Sorbian: śepaś
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*teti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 491
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “тепу́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress