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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žiti

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *gīˀwetei, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian gýti (to heal; to recover).

Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit जीवति (jī́vati), Latin vīvō (to live) (infinitive vīvere).

Verb

*žìti [1]

  1. to live

Inflection

Descendants

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*žìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 562: “v. (c) ‘live’”
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