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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.
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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 > *-ḱťi > *-ćťi (?) > *-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 script: -ћи
- Latin script: -ći
- Slovene: -či
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: -ci
- Old Polish: -c
- Slovak: -ť
References
- Ranko Matasović (2008), Poredbenopovijesna gramatika hrvatskog jezika, Matica hrvatska: Zagreb, page 300f