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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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *sánti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sonti, verb form of *h₁ésti.
Cognate with Latin sunt.
Verb
*sǫtь
- third-person plural present of *byti
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сѫть (sǫtĭ)
- Russian: суть f (sutʹ, “essence, core, gist”)
- Ukrainian: суть f (sutʹ, “essence, core, gist”)
- Carpathian Rusyn: сут (sut)
- Old Novgorodian: соуть (sutĭ), су (su)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: сѫтъ (sǫtŭ)
- Bulgarian: са (sa)
- Macedonian: се (se), сет (set) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: су, јѐсу
- Latin script: su, jèsu
- Old Slovene: sunt
- Slovene: sȍ (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: sú
- Kashubian: są
- Old Polish: są
- Old Slovak: sú
- Pannonian Rusyn: су (su)
- Slovak: sú
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: su
- Lower Sorbian: su
References
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “суть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress