Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/otъvěťati

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

Alternative forms

*otvěťati
*otъvětati

Etymology

From *otъvětiti +‎ *-ati; see also *otъ-, *věťati.

Verb

*otъvěťati impf

to answer

Inflection

Conjugation of *otъvěťati, *otъvěťa, *otъvěťajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*otъvěťanьje	*otъvěťati	*otъvěťatъ	*otъvěťalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*otъvěťanъ	*otъvěťajemъ
Active	*otъvěťavъ	*otъvěťaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*otъvěťaxъ	*otъvěťa	*otъvěťa	*otъvěťajǫ	*otъvěťaješi	*otъvěťajetь
Dual	*otъvěťaxově	*otъvěťasta	*otъvěťaste	*otъvěťajevě	*otъvěťajeta	*otъvěťajete
Plural	*otъvěťaxomъ	*otъvěťaste	*otъvěťašę	*otъvěťajemъ	*otъvěťajete	*otъvěťajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*otъvěťaaxъ	*otъvěťaaše	*otъvěťaaše	—	*otъvěťaji	*otъvěťaji
Dual	*otъvěťaaxově	*otъvěťaašeta	*otъvěťaašete	*otъvěťajivě	*otъvěťajita	—
Plural	*otъvěťaaxomъ	*otъvěťaašete	*otъvěťaaxǫ	*otъvěťajimъ	*otъvěťajite	—

Related terms

*věťati (“to say”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: отъвѣчати (otŭvěčati), отъвѣтати (otŭvětati)
  - Belarusian: адвяча́ць (advjačácʹ) (dialectal)
  - Russian: отвеча́ть (otvečátʹ)
  - Ukrainian: відвіча́ти (vidvičáty)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: отъвѣщати (otŭvěštati)
- Bulgarian: отвѣщаѭ (otvěštajǫ) (archaic; Gerov's dictionary)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: одвијећати, одвијетати
  
  Latin script: odvijećati, odvijetati
West Slavic:
- Czech: odveceti (archaic)

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ot(ъ)větjati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 383
Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2014), “*otъvět(j)ati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 39 (*otъtęti – *ozgǫba), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 83