Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/kerstei

This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-, a t-extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognates include Sanskrit कर्तति (kartati, “to cut, to divide”) (thematic present), कृन्तति (kṛntati, “to shred”) (ne-infix present).

Verb

*kerstei

  1. to cut, to carve

Inflection

Baltic:[1]

  • e-grade thematic present: 3p. sg. *kérteti
  • 0-grade thematic preterite: 3p. sg. *kirtét

Slavic:[2]

  • 0-grade thematic present: 3p. sg. *kirtéti
  • e-grade thematic preterite: 3p. sg. *kértet

Descendants

  • East Baltic:[3]
    • Latgalian: cierst
    • Latvian: cìrst, pres. cērt
    • Lithuanian: kir̃sti, pres. ker̃tа
  • Proto-Slavic: *čersti[4], pres. *čьrtetь (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Latvian displays elongated grade in the present.
  2. ^ East Slavic displays 0-grade throughout the whole paradigm.
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “kirsti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 247: “BSl. *kert-, *kirt-”
  4. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*čersti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 85: “BSl. *kert-, *kirt-”
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