Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jьti

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *éitei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti (to go). Cognates include Lithuanian ei̇̃ti (to go, walk), Latin (to go).[1]

The suppletive past participle stem *šьd- is likely from the same root as *xoditi, although the exact derivation of the form is problematic.[2]

Verb

*jьti impf[1][3]

  1. to go

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • *dojьti (to arrive)
  • *najьti (to chance upon, to find)
  • *niz(о)jьti (to descend, to go down)
  • *ob(о)jьti (to go around, to evade)
  • *perjьti (to get across)
  • *pojьti (to depart)
  • *prijьti (to approach, to come towards)
  • *projьti (to pass by, to overpass)
  • *vъz(o)jьti (to accend, to go up)
  • *zajьti (to proceed)

Descendants

ісці́ (iscí), идти́ (idtí), iść, ísť are back-formed from the present stem and/or after Proto-Slavic *sěsti (to sit).

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: ити (iti)
      • Old Ruthenian: ити́ (ití), исти́ (istí)
      • Russian: идти́ (idtí)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: jíti
    • Old Polish:
      • Polish: iść (through regularization)
      • Silesian: , iść (through regularization)
    • Slovak: ísť
    • Polabian: ai̯t
    • Pomeranian:
      • Kashubian: jic
      • Slovincian: jyc
    • Sorbian:

Further reading

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “идти”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 337
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “идти”, 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 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1023

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*jiti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 216:v. ‘go’
  2. ^ Kortlandt, Frederik (1988) “Remarks on Winter's law”, in Andre van Holk, editor, Dutch contributions to the 10th international congress of slavists, Sofia, Amsterdam: Rodopi
  3. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “iti: jьdǫ jьdetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:b gå (PR 136)