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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čitati
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *čisti + *-ati.
Cognate with Latgalian skaiteit, Latvian skaitīt, Lithuanian skaityti, Samogitian skaitītė.
Verb
*čitati impf[1]
- to read
- to count
Conjugation
Conjugation of *čitati, *čita, *čitajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Suffix: *-ati
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *čitanьje | *čitati | *čitatъ | *čitalъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *čitanъ | *čitajemъ |
| Active | *čitavъ | *čitaję |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *čitaxъ | *čita | *čita | *čitajǫ | *čitaješi | *čitajetь |
| Dual | *čitaxově | *čitasta | *čitaste | *čitajevě | *čitajeta | *čitajete |
| Plural | *čitaxomъ | *čitaste | *čitašę | *čitajemъ | *čitajete | *čitajǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *čitaaxъ | *čitaaše | *čitaaše | — | *čitaji | *čitaji |
| Dual | *čitaaxově | *čitaašeta | *čitaašete | *čitajivě | *čitajita | — |
| Plural | *čitaaxomъ | *čitaašete | *čitaaxǫ | *čitajimъ | *čitajite | — |
Derived terms
- *počitati (“to honour”)
- *začitati (“to accept, to respect”)
- *sъčitati (“to regard, to consider”)
- *jьzčitati (“to read over”)
- *perčitati (“to re-read”)
- *čitateľь (“reader”)
- *čitařь (“professional reader”)
- *čitadlo (“reading instrument”)
- *čitаlъkа (“reading room”)
- *čitаlišče (“lyceum”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: читати (čitati)
- Old Ruthenian: чита́ти (čitáti), чыта́ти (čytáti)
- Belarusian: чыта́ць (čytácʹ)
- Rusyn: чітати (čitaty)
- Ukrainian: чита́ти (čytáty)
- Russian: чита́ть (čitátʹ)
- Old Ruthenian: чита́ти (čitáti), чыта́ти (čytáti)
- Old East Slavic: читати (čitati)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: читати (čitati)
- Glagolitic: ⱍⰺⱅⰰⱅⰺ (čitati)
- Bulgarian: читам (čitam)
- Macedonian: чи́та (číta)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чѝтати
- Latin: čìtati
- Slovene: čítati, čȋtati (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: čítat
- Kashubian: czëtac
- Polish: czytać
- Slovak: čítať
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: cytaś
- Upper Sorbian: čitać
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: citi
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “чита́ть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*čitati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 90: “v. ‘read, count’”