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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čitati

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *čisti + *-ati.

Cognate with Latgalian skaiteit, Latvian skaitīt, Lithuanian skaityti, Samogitian skaitītė.

Verb

*čitati impf [1]

  1. to read
  2. to count

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • *počitati (to honour)
  • *začitati (to accept, to respect)
  • *sъčitati (to regard, to consider)
  • *jьzčitati (to read over)
  • *perčitati (to re-read)
  • *čitateľь (reader)
  • *čitařь (professional reader)
  • *čitadlo (reading instrument)
  • *čitаlъkа (reading room)
  • *čitаlišče (lyceum)

Descendants

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*čitati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 90: “v. ‘read, count’”
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