Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tajati

From Proto-Indo-European *teh₂-. Cognate with Ancient Greek τήκω (tḗkō, “to melt”) (Dorian dialect τᾱ́κω (tā́kō)), Latin tābeō (“to melt, to dwindle”), Welsh tawdd (“dripping”), Old English þāwian (“to thaw”), English thaw, Albanian thaj (“to dry up, to thaw”), Ossetian тайын (tajyn, “to melt”), Old Armenian թանամ (tʿanam, “to moisten, to wet”). Compare also Czech tavit (“to melt”), Slovak taviť (“to melt”).

*tàjati impf

1. to melt

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: таꙗти (tajati), 1sg. таю (taju)
    • Russian: та́ять (tájatʹ, “to melt, to thaw, to dwindle”), 1sg. та́ю (táju)
    • Ukrainian: та́яти (tájaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: таꙗти (tajati), 1sg. таѭ (tajǫ)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: та́я (tája, “to melt slowly”), 2sg. та́иш (táiš)
  • Macedonian: таи (tai, “to melt”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: та̏јати (“to thaw”)

    Latin: tȁjati (“to thaw”)

  • Slovene: tájati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: táti
    • Czech: tát
  • Old Polish: tajać
    • Polish: tajać
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: tać
    • Lower Sorbian: tajaś

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “та́ять”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 230
• Derksen, Rick (2008), “*tàjati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 489
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “та́ю”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress