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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pytati

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 Proto-Indo-European *pew-. Cognate with Latin putāre (“to cut off branches, estimate, consider, think”), Tocharian A putk, as well as (without *-t-) Lithuanian piáuti, Latin paviō, Ancient Greek παίω (paíō), Albanian fus (“insert, put (something) in”).

Verb

*pȳtàti[1]

  1. to ask, examine

Inflection
Conjugation of *pytati, *pyta, *pytajetь (?, -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)
Suffix: *-ati
Verbal noun Infinitive Supine L-participle
*pytanьje *pytati *pytatъ *pytalъ
Participles
Tense Past Present
Passive *pytanъ *pytajemъ
Active *pytavъ *pytaję
Aorist Present
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Singular *pytaxъ*pyta*pyta *pytajǫ*pytaješi*pytajetь
Dual *pytaxově*pytasta*pytaste *pytajevě*pytajeta*pytajete
Plural *pytaxomъ*pytaste*pytašę *pytajemъ*pytajete*pytajǫtь
Imperfect Imperative
Person 1st2nd3rd 1st2nd3rd
Singular *pytaaxъ*pytaaše*pytaaše —*pytaji*pytaji
Dual *pytaaxově*pytaašeta*pytaašete *pytajivě*pytajita—
Plural *pytaaxomъ*pytaašete*pytaaxǫ *pytajimъ*pytajite—

Derived terms
  • *jьzpytati
  • *napytati
  • *opytati
    • *opytanьje
    • *opytъ
    • *opytъka
    • *opytьnъ
  • *orzpytati
    • *orzpytanьje
    • *orzpytovati
    • *orzpytъ
  • *otъpytati
    • *otъpytanьje

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: пꙑтати (pytati)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: пꙑтати (pytati, “to examine”), 1sg. пꙑтаѭ (pytajǫ)
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: пи́там (pítam, “to ask”)
    • Macedonian: пита (pita)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: пи́тати (“to ask”)
      Latin: pítati (“to ask”)
      • Chakavian (Vrgada): pītȁti (“to ask”), 2sg. pĩtå̄š
      • Chakavian (Orbanići): pītȁt (“to ask, to request”), 1sg. pĩtan
    • Slovene: pítati (“to ask”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. pȋtam (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: ptát
      • Moravian (Mistřice): pítat
    • Kashubian: pëtac
    • Polish: pytać
    • Slovak: pýtať (“to ask”)
    • Sorbian:

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pȳtàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 425: “v. (b) ‘ask, examine’”
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