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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pečatь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably a contamination of an earlier *pečětь (“brand”), formed as *pekti (“to bake, to cook”) + *-ětь, under the influence of a Oghur term (per BER) surviving as Chuvash пичет (pičet, “seal, cachet”) and Georgian ბეჭედი (beč̣edi, “ring, seal”).
Inflection
Declension of *pečatь (i-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *pečatь | *pečati | *pečatьjē, *pečaťē* |
Accusative | *pečatь | *pečati | *pečati |
Genitive | *pečatī | *pečatьju, *pečaťu* | *pečatьjь, *pečatī* |
Locative | *pečatī | *pečatьju, *pečaťu* | *pečatьxъ |
Dative | *pečati | *pečatьma | *pečatьmъ |
Instrumental | *pečatьmь | *pečatьma | *pečatьmī |
Vocative | *pečati | *pečati | *pečatьjē, *pečaťē* |
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Derived terms
- *pečatatъ (“to print”)
- *pečatьlěti (“to impress”)
- *vъpečatьlenьje (“impression”)
- *vъpečatьlitelьnъ (“impressive”)
- *otъpečatьkъ (“imprint”)
- *pečatьnъ (“printed”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: реčеť f
- Polish: pieczęć f (with unexpected -ę-)
- Slovak: реčať f
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: рjеčаt
Further reading
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “печать”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
- Duridanov I., Račeva M., Todorov T., editors (1996), “печа̀т”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 212
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “pečatь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “pečȃt”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, →ISBN: “*peča̋tь”
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