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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stiťi

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

Alternative reconstructions

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *stéigtei, from Proto-Indo-European *stéygʰeti, from the root *steygʰ-. Cognate with Lithuanian steĩgti (to organize, to found, to produce, (dialectal) to want, to hurry), steĩgtis (to hurry up, to try), Latvian stèigt (to hurry), stèigtiês (to hurry). Further akin to Sanskrit स्तिघ्नोति (stighnoti, to rise), Ancient Greek στείχω (steíkhō, to walk, to march), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (steigan, to climb), Old Irish tíagu (I go, I walk), Albanian shteg (road).

Verb

*sti̋ťi pf (imperfective *stigati)[1][2]

  1. to attain
  2. to catch up with, to reach

Alternative forms

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *dostiťi (to reach up) < *do- + *stiťi
  • *postiťi (to accomplish) < *po- + *stiťi
  • *nastiťi (to catch up) < *na- + *stiťi
  • *zastiťi (to overtake) < *za- + *stiťi
  • *pristiťi (to arrive) < *pri- + *stiťi

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *стичи (*stiči) (1399)
      • Old East Slavic: *достищи (*dostišči)
      • Russian: -сти́чь (-stíčʹ)
      • Ukrainian: -сти́гти (-stýhty), сти́жити (stýžyty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: сти́же (stíže, suffices, comes up) (dialectal, fossilized 3p. sg.)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: сти̏ћи
      Latin: stȉći

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*stigti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 467
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), stigniti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “pslovan. *sti̋t'i”

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