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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sěťi
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”), with unexplained -ě-. Cognate with Latin secō (“to cut, to mow”). Explanations for the -ě- vary:
- Rix (LIV) reconstructs an acrodynamic (Narten) present *sēk-. (In the Leiden school view of Derksen and Kortlandt, this would not yield the required acute vowel.)
- Kortlandt asserts that the vowel of *sěkti was lengthened to disambiguate the verb from the root preserved in Lithuanian sèkti (“to watch, to follow”), Proto-Slavic *sočiti (“to pursue, to indicate”) < Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.
- Derksen notes that the short root vowel is preserved in секыра (sekyra, “axe”).
Inflection
Conjugation of *sěťi (impf., -C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm c)
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
---|---|---|---|
*sěčenьje | *sěťi | *sěťь | *sěklъ |
Participles | ||
---|---|---|
Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *sěčenъ | *sěkomъ |
Active | *sěkъ | *sěky |
Aorist | Present | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *sěk(ox)ъ | *sěče | *sěče | *sěkǫ | *sěčeši | *sěčetь |
Dual | *sěk(ox)ově | *sěk(e/os)ta | *sěk(e/os)te | *sěčevě | *sěčeta | *sěčete |
Plural | *sěk(ox)omъ | *sěk(e/os)te | *sěkǫ, *sěkošę | *sěčemъ | *sěčete | *sěkǫtь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *sěčaaxъ | *sěčaaše | *sěčaaše | — | *sěci | *sěci |
Dual | *sěčaaxově | *sěčaašeta | *sěčaašete | *sěcěvě | *sěcěta | — |
Plural | *sěčaaxomъ | *sěčaašete | *sěčaaxǫ | *sěcěmъ | *sěcěte | — |
- Notes:
- Aorist *sěkeste ⇒ *sěčeste, ...
Derived terms
Related terms
- *sekyra (“axe”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сѣчи (sěči)
- Belarusian: сячы́ (sjačý)
- Russian: се́чь (séčʹ)
- Ukrainian: сі́кти (síkty)
- Old East Slavic: сѣчи (sěči)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “секу”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
- Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), “сечь”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 159
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sěkti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 446: “v. (c) ‘cut, mow’”
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