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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čitati

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

From *čisti +‎ *-ati.

Cognate with Latgalian skaiteit, Latvian skaitīt, Lithuanian skaityti, Samogitian skaitītė.

Verb

*čitati impf[1]

  1. to read
  2. to count

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • *počitati (“to honour”)
  • *začitati (“to accept, to respect”)
  • *sъčitati (“to regard, to consider”)
  • *jьzčitati (“to read over”)
  • *perčitati (“to re-read”)
  • *čitateľь (“reader”)
  • *čitařь (“professional reader”)
  • *čitadlo (“reading instrument”)
  • *čitаlъkа (“reading room”)
  • *čitаlišče (“lyceum”)

Descendants

  • Non-Slavic:

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*čitati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 90: “v. ‘read, count’”
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