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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tęgnǫti

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 the root of *tęťi (to pull) + *-nǫti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ting-, *teng-, from Proto-Indo-European *tengʰ-.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian tìngti (to become slow) (3sg. tìngsta), tingė́ti (to be lazy) (3sg. tìngi).

Indo-European cognates include Old Norse þyngja (burden), þīsl (drawbar, shaft), Old High German dīhsala (drawbar, shaft), Latin tēmō (drawbar, shaft) < *tenk-smō.

Verb

*tęgnǫti impf

  1. to pull

Inflection

  • *tędzati (to pull, extract)
  • *tęgъ / *tęga (traction, weight)
  • *tęžьkъ (heavy)

Derived terms

  • *natęgnǫti

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: тѧгнѫти (tęgnǫti), 1sg. тѧгнѫ (tęgnǫ)
    • Bulgarian: те́гна (tégna)
    • Macedonian: тегне (tegne)
    • Slovene: tė́gniti (to provide, to stretch) (tonal orthography), 1sg. tėgnem (tonal orthography)

References

  • Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), тяну́ть”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 278
  • Derksen, Rick (2008), “*tęgnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 493
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), тя́га”, 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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