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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pьxati

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 *piš-, from Proto-Indo-European *pis-, from *peys-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian pìsti (to copulate) (1sg. pisù). Other Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit पिनष्टि (pináṣṭi, to crush), Avestan 𐬞𐬌𐬱𐬀𐬥𐬙- (pišant-, pushing), Ancient Greek πτίσσω (ptíssō, to winnow grain, to crush in a mortar), Latin pīnsō (to crush) (infinitive pīnsere), Middle High German vīsel (mortar).

Verb

*pьxàti[1][2]

  1. to push, to shove

Inflection

Descendants

  • Church Slavonic: пьхати (pĭxati) (Serbian)
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: пьхати (pĭxati), пихати (pixati)
      • Belarusian: пхаць (pxacʹ)
      • Russian: пиха́ть (pixátʹ), dialectal or low colloquial пхать (pxatʹ)
      • Ukrainian: пха́ти (pxáty)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pьxati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 426: “v. ‘push, shove’”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), pháti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*pьxa̋ti”
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