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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/značiti
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *znakъ + *-iti.
Verb
*značiti
- to mean?
Inflection
Conjugation of *značiti, *znači, *značitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Suffix: *-iti
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
---|---|---|---|
*značenьje | *značiti | *značitъ | *značilъ |
Participles | ||
---|---|---|
Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *značenъ | *značimъ |
Active | *značь | *značę |
Aorist | Present | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *značixъ | *znači | *znači | *značǫ | *značiši | *značitь |
Dual | *značixově | *značista | *značiste | *značivě | *značita | *značite |
Plural | *značixomъ | *značiste | *značišę | *značimъ | *značite | *značętь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *značaaxъ | *značaaše | *značaaše | — | *znači | *znači |
Dual | *značaaxově | *značaašeta | *značaašete | *značivě | *značita | — |
Plural | *značaaxomъ | *značaašete | *značaaxǫ | *značimъ | *značite | — |
- Notes:
- (*)*značivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: зна́чыць (znáčycʹ)
- Russian: зна́чить (znáčitʹ)
- Ukrainian: зна́чити (znáčyty)
- South Slavic
- Bulgarian: зна́ча (znáča)
- Macedonian: значи (znači)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: зна́чити
- Latin: znáčiti
- Slovene: znáčiti (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic
- Czech: značit
- Kashubian: znaczëc
- Polish: znaczyć
- Slovak: značiť
Further reading
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “знак”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 648
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “знача”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 649