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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tesati

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-Balto-Slavic *téśtei, from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- (“to hew”), perhaps from a reduplication of *teḱ- (“to strike”) (compare Ancient Greek κτείνω (kteínō, “to slay”)).

Verb

*tesàti impf[1][2][3]

  1. to hew, to hack
  2. (via specialization) to patch, to trim (with tool)

Conjugation

Later in some descendants:

Derived terms

  • *tesъ (“timber”)
  • *tesařь (“carpenter”)
  • *tesadlo, *tesakъ (“hacking tool (cleaver, hatchet, adze)”)

Descendants

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*tesàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 491
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “tesati: tesjǫ tesjetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b glatte, tilhugge (SA 210; PR 136)”
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016), “tesati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *tesa̋ti”
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