Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kosnǫti

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 the root of *česàti (to scratch, to comb) + *-nǫti.

Verb

*kosnǫti pf[1][2]

  1. to touch?

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: коснѫти (kosnǫti), коснути (kosnuti)
      • Belarusian: касну́цца (kasnúcca) (dialectal)
      • Russian: косну́ться (kosnútʹsja)
      • Ukrainian: косну́тися (kosnútysja) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: коснѫти (kosnǫti)
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: ко́снувам (kósnuvam) (obsolete, dialectal)
    • Macedonian: косне (kosne)

(literary)

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “косну́ться”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kosnǫti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 155

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kosnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 239:v.
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “kosnǫti: kosnǫ kosnetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:b røre (PR 137)