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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/najьti

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 *na- (“on, upon”) +‎ *jьti (“to go”).

Verb

*najь̀ti pf[1]

  1. (transitive) to chance upon, to find
  2. (reflexive) (+ *sę) to stumble across, to find oneself at

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • *najьdьba (“encounter”)
  • *vъz(o)jьti (“to accend, to go up”)
  • *niz(о)jьti (“to descend, to go down”)
  • *dojьti (“to arrive”)
  • *perjьti (“to get across”)
  • *pojьti (“to depart”)
  • *prijьti (“to approach, to come towards”)
  • *projьti (“to pass by, to overpass”)
  • *ob(о)jьti (“to go around, to evade”)
  • *zajьti (“to proceed”)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: наити (najti)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: наити (najti)
    • Bulgarian: на́йда pf (nájda), на́йдувам impf (nájduvam)
    • Macedonian: најде (najde)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Slovene: nájti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

References

  1. Snoj, Marko (2016), “najti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *najiti̋”
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