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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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