Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/obrěsti

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 *ob- + an obscure element *rět-, possibly from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wrēt-, also found in Proto-Slavic *sъrěsti (“to encounter”). Cognate with Lithuanian surė̃sti (“to seize”). Per Trubachev, the most likely cognates are Ancient Greek εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find, to acquire”) (aor. εὗρον (heûron)), Old Irish -fuar (“I found”) < *wewr- (3sg. passive -frīth (“it was found”) < *wrē-to), Old Armenian գերեմ (gerem, “to capture, take prisoner”).

Verb

*obrěsti

to find

Inflection

1sg. *obrętǫ, *obręťǫ

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

*sъrěsti (“to encounter”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: обрести́ (obrestí, “to find”) (literary), 1sg. обрету́ (obretú), 3sg. обретёт (obretjót), archaic 1sg. обря́щу (obrjášču), 3sg. обря́щет (obrjáščet) (a Church Slavonicism)

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: обрѣсти (obrěsti, “to find”), 1sg. обрѧщѫ (obręštǫ)
  
  Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: обрести (“to find”) (13th-16th century)[1]
  
  Latin: obresti (“to find”) (13th-16th century)[1]; dialectal obrèsti se (“to meet”), obrȅs(t) (“to be found, to turn out to be”)
- Slovene: obrẹ́sti (“to find”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. obrẹ́tem (tonal orthography)

West Slavic: —

References

Per Skok (III: 319), borrowed from Russian.

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*obrěsti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362
Skok, Petar (1973) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume III, Zagreb: JAZU, page 319
Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (2002), “*obrěsti (sę), *obręt(j)ǫ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 29, Moscow: Nauka, page 74

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[sh-1] Per Skok (III: 319), borrowed from Russian.