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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nyti

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

Verb

*nyti impf[1]

  1. to yearn

Inflection

  • *nùditi, *nǫ̀diti (“to compel, to force”)
  • *nutiti, *nǫtiti (“to compel, to force”)
  • *nukati, *nǫkati (“to urge, to incite”)
  • *nùďa, *nǫ̀ďa (“need”)
  • *unyti (“to lose heart, to be cast down, to be dejected or depressed”)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: нꙑти (nyti)
  • South Slavic:
    • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: оунꙑти (unyti)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: унѝвам (unìvam)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: nýti
    • Kashubian: nyc, nëc
    • Polish: nyć
    • Slovak: nyť (poetic)
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: nyć

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 360: “v. ‘yearn’”
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