Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-ťi

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

When the stem ended in a velar the cluster *-kt- became palatalized before front vowels during the Common Slavic period which yielded this variant ending: *-kti > *-k't'i > *-ťi.

Suffix

*-ťi

Form of *-ti, used with root-stem verbs ending in *k or *g.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: -чи (-či)
  - Belarusian: -чы (-čy)
  - Russian: -чь (-čʹ)
  - Ukrainian: -чи (-čy)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: -щи (-šti)
  Glagolitic: -ⱋⰻ (-šti)
- Bulgarian: — (infinitive has been lost)
- Macedonian: — (infinitive has been lost)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: -ћи
  Latin: -ći
- Slovene: -či
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: -ci
  - Czech: -ci
- Old Polish: -c
  - Polish: -c
- Slovak: -ť

References

Ranko Matasović (2008), Poredbenopovijesna gramatika hrvatskog jezika, Matica hrvatska: Zagreb, page 300f