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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/počiti

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 *po- + *čiti[1], from the root *kʷyeh₁-. Akin to Sanskrit चिर (cirá, long), Avestan 𐬱𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌𐬨 (šāitim, happiness), Latin quiēs (rest), Latin tranquīlus, tranquillus (tranquil), Proto-Germanic *hwīlō (pause, while).

Verb

*počìti pf[2][3]

  1. to rest

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: (спачы́ць (spačýcʹ))
    • Russian: почи́ть (počítʹ)
    • Ukrainian: почи́ти (počýty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: почити (počiti)
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Slovene: počíti (tonal orthography)

Further reading

References

  1. Olander, Thomas (2001), -čiti: -čijǫ -čijetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a hvile (SA 204; PR 133; MP 27)”
  2. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*počìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 408
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016), počíti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *poči̋ti, sed. *poči̋jǫ”
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