Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/piťa

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

Normally reconstructed as stemming from Proto-Indo-European *peyH-. Derksen considers it more likely to stem from Proto-Balto-Slavic *peit-, from Proto-Indo-European *peyt-, assumed to be from the same root *pey- that underlies *peyH- but with a different root extension. Cognates involving *peyt- include Lithuanian piẽtūs (“dinner”, pl.), Sanskrit पितु (pitú, “nutrition”), Avestan 𐬞𐬌𐬙𐬎‎ (pitu, “food”), 𐬞𐬌𐬚𐬎𐬎𐬁‎ (piθuuā, “food”), Old Irish ithid (“to eat”), Boeotian dialectal Ancient Greek πιτεύω (piteúō, “to irrigate, to water (cattle)”). Cognates involving *peyH- include Sanskrit पीवन् (pī́van, “fat”), English fat and many other words; see the root for more cognates.

Noun

*pìťa f

food

Inflection

Declension of *pìťa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*pìťa	*pìťi	*pìťę̇
Accusative	*pìťǫ	*pìťi	*pìťę̇
Genitive	*pìťę̇	*pìťu	*pìťь
Locative	*pìťī	*pìťu	*pìťāsъ
Dative	*pìťī	*pìťama	*pìťāmъ
Instrumental	pìťējǫ, pìťǭ^*	*pìťama	*pìťāmī
Vocative	*pìťe	*pìťi	*pìťę̇

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Related terms

*pitati, *pitěti (“to feed”)

Descendants

East Slavic: — (see below)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: пища (pišta, “food, bliss”)
  
  Glagolitic: [Term?]
  - → Old East Slavic: пища (pišča)
    - Russian: пи́ща (píšča, “food”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: пи̏ћа (“food, fodder”)
  
  Latin: pȉća (“food, fodder”)
- Slovene: píča (“food, fodder”) (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: піца (pica), пица (pica)
  
  Glagolitic: ⱂⰹⱌⰰ (pica)
- Old Czech: pícě
  - Czech: píce (“fodder”)
- Old Polish: pica (“fodder, victuals”)
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: pica (“food, fodder”)
  - Lower Sorbian: pica (“food, fodder”)

References

Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “пи́ща”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 37
Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pìtja”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 401
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пи́ща”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

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