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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
From *kortъ + *-iti.
Verb
*kortiti
- to shorten
Inflection
Conjugation of *kortiti, *korti, *kortitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
| Verbal noun
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Infinitive
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Supine
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L-participle
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| *korťenьje
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*kortiti
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*kortitъ
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*kortilъ
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Participles
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| Tense
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Past
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Present
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| Passive
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*korťenъ
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*kortimъ
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| Active
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*korťь
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*kortę
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Aorist
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Present
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| Person
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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| Singular
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*kortixъ |
*korti |
*korti
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*korťǫ |
*kortiši |
*kortitь
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| Dual
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*kortixově |
*kortista |
*kortiste
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*kortivě |
*kortita |
*kortite
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| Plural
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*kortixomъ |
*kortiste |
*kortišę
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*kortimъ |
*kortite |
*kortętь
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Imperfect
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Imperative
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| Person
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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| Singular
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*korťaaxъ |
*korťaaše |
*korťaaše
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*korti |
*korti
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| Dual
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*korťaaxově |
*korťaašeta |
*korťaašete
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*kortivě |
*kortita |
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| Plural
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*korťaaxomъ |
*korťaašete |
*korťaaxǫ
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*kortimъ |
*kortite |
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Notes: - (*)*kortivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: караціць (karacicʹ)
- ⇒ Russian: сократи́ть (sokratítʹ)
- Ukrainian: короти́ти (korotýty)
- South Slavic
- Bulgarian: кратя (kratja) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: крати (krati)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: кра́тити
- Latin script: krátiti
- Slovene: krátiti (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kortiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 98