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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/činiti

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Causative-iterative of *činǫti (“to probe, to gauge”) +‎ *-iti (cognate with Ancient Greek τῐ́νω (tínō, “to pay honor”)) and/or related noun *činъ (“rank, status”) +‎ *-iti, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- (“to enquire, to evaluate”) < *kʷ- (interrogative particle).

Verb

*činìti[1][2]

  1. (transitive) to instigate, to cause
    Synonym: *raděti
    → to prepare, to commence
    → to compile, to conjure
    → to accomplish, to fulfill
    → to raise, to set up
  2. (transitive) to do, to perform
    Synonyms: *děti, *dělati, *praviti
  3. (intransitive, abstract) to constitute, to stand for, to be worth

Inflection

  • *činъ (“rank”)
  • *pričina (“cause”)
  • *načinъ (“manner”)
  • *činьnъ, *činovъ (“official, functional”)
    • *činovьnikъ
  • *cěniti (“to value, to esteem”)

Descendants

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*činìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 89: “v. (c)”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “činiti: činjǫ činitь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c gøre, udrette (PR 140)”

Further reading

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