съставитисѧ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From съставити (sŭstaviti, to compose) +‎ -сѧ (-sę).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʊˈstɑʋitisɛ̃//sʊˈstaʋʲitʲisʲa//ˈsstaʋʲitʲisʲa/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /sʊˈstɑʋitisɛ̃/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /sʊˈstaʋʲitʲisʲa/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈsstaʋʲitʲisʲa/

  • Hyphenation: съ‧ста‧ви‧ти‧сѧ

Verb

съставитисѧ (sŭstavitisępf

  1. (intransitive) to be composed
  2. (intransitive) to be built
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik[1], page 3:
      Не съставить бо сѧ корабль беꙁ гвоꙁдии
      Ne sŭstavitĭ bo korablĭ bez gvozdii
      For a boat isn't built without nails

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Russian: соста́виться (sostávitʹsja)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “съставитисѧ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 824