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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děti

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 1

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dḗˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁ti, from *dʰeh₁- (to do).

Verb

*děti impf (perfective *děnǫti or *děvati)[1][2]

  1. (transitive) to do
  2. (ditransitive) to put, to place
    → to put on (clothes)
  3. (transitive) to thread, to hitch, to process
  4. (reflexive) to happen
Alternative forms
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • *jьzdě(ja)ti
  • *nadě(ja)ti
  • *odě(ja)ti
  • *perdě(ja)ti (to find a way to do)
  • *podě(ja)ti (to undertake)
  • *sъdě(ja)ti
  • *zadě(ja)ti
  • *děkati (to urge, to make (s.o.) to do), *děkovati (to joke around)
  • *dějь(inъ) (agent, doer)
  • *dějьcь (activist)
    • *bolgodějьcь (benefactor)
  • *dětь (deed)
  • *dějьstvo, *dějьstvьje (action)
    • *dějьstvati, *dějьstvovati (to take action)
  • *dělo (act, work)
Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: дзець (dzjecʹ)
    • Russian: деть (detʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ді́ти (díty)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: dieti (impf./pf.)[3][4]
      • Czech: dít
        • Moravian (Mistřice): ďet
    • Old Polish: dziać (impf?/pf?)[5][6]
      • Polish: dziać (to happen, impf.), dziać się (impf./pf.)
    • Slovak: diať sa (to be done, impf.)[7], dieť (pf.)[8]
    • Slovincian: ʒǻu̯c są (impf.)[9]
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: dźeć (?)[10]
      • Lower Sorbian: źaś (impf.)[11]

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*děti I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 104: “v. ‘do, say’”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), dẹti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *dě̋ti, sed. *dě̋nǫ (star. *ded'ǫ)”
  3. Jan Gebauer (1903), dieti”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), volume 1, Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění, page 246
  4. Jan Gebauer (1884), Tvaroslovné výklady a doklady ke slovesům třídy V”, in Listy filologické a paedagogické, volume 11, Prague: Jednota českých filologů, Edvard Grégr, page 103
  5. K. Nitsch, editor (1957), dziać, dzieć, dziejać”, in Słownik staropolski (in Old Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, Kraków: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 252
  6. B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), dziać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
  7. Štefan Peciar, editor (1959), diať sa”, in Slovník slovenského jazyka (in Slovak), volume 1, Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo SAV, page 259
  8. Štefan Peciar, editor (1959), dieť”, in Slovník slovenského jazyka (in Slovak), volume 1, Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo SAV, page 260
  9. Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), ʒǻu̯c są”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 230
  10. Křesćan Pful, editor (1866), dźeć”, in Łužiski serbski słownik / Lausitzisch Wendisches Wörterbuch (in German), Budyšin: Maćica Serbska, page 180
  11. Muka, Arnošt (1928), źaś”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), volume 2, Prague: ČAVU, page 1175; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008

Etymology 2

See *dětь.

Noun

*děti f[1][2]

  1. children (plural of *dětь)
    Synonym: *dětьca
Usage notes

May have functioned as a plurale tantum in Proto-Slavic, with the singular handled by *dětę.

Declension
Descendants

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*děti II”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 104: “Npl. f. ‘children’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), děti”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “f.pl.tant. c children (PR 138)”
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