< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic

Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/padati

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 *pàsti (to fall) + *-ati, regionally *pàsti (to fall) + *-jati. Per Derksen, an example of Winter's law.

Verb

*pàdati impf (perfective *padnǫti) [1]

  1. to fall
  2. to encounter, to come across

Inflection

Alternative forms

  • *pàďati (Macedonian, dialectal Bulgarian)

Descendants

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pàdati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 389: “v. (a) ‘fall’”
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.