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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sьcati

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 earlier *sьkati by the Slavic progressive palatalization, from Proto-Indo-European *sikʷ-, from *seykʷ-. Cognate with Sanskrit सिञ्चति (siñcáti, to pour out), Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬧𐬗𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hiṇcaiti), 𐬵𐬌𐬗𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hicaiti, to pour), Old High German sīhan (to strain, to drip), German seichen (to piss), Ancient Greek ἷξαι (hîxai, to strain, to filter) (found in Hesychius of Alexandria), Latin siat, sissiat ((he) urinates).

Verb

*sьcati impf

  1. to piss

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: сцаць (scacʹ)
    • Russian: сцать (scatʹ) (dialectal), 1sg. сцу (scu), 3sg. сцит (scit); assimilated ссать (ssatʹ), 1sg. ссу (ssu), 3sg. ссыт (ssyt)
    • Ukrainian: сця́ти (scjáty), 1sg. сцю (scju), 2sg. сциш (scyš)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: сьцати (sĭcati), 1sg. сьчѫ (sĭčǫ), 2sg. сьчиши (sĭčiši) (Serbian)
    • Serbo-Croatian: scati (Kajkavian)
    • Slovene: scáti (tonal orthography), 1sg. sčím, sčíjem (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: scát, 1sg. štím; chcát
    • Polish: szczać, 1sg. szczam
    • Slovak: šťať, 1sg. štím
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: šćeć
      • Lower Sorbian: šćaś

Further reading

  • Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sьcati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 485
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), сцать”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
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