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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sěsti

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 *sḗˀstei, from an earlier *sēˀdtei, from pre-Indo-European *sedti, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- from by (Winter's law).

Baltic cognates include Latvian sēsties, Lithuanian sė́sti, 3sg. sė́da, Old Prussian sindants (sitting). (apparently reformed as a nasal-infix present)

Indo-European cognates include Proto-Italic *sedēō, Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, Proto-Indo-Iranian *síždati, Ancient Greek ἕζομαι (hézomai, to sit down),

Verb

*sěsti pf[1]

  1. to sit down

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: сѣсти (sěsti)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: сѣсти (sěsti)
      Glagolitic: ⱄⱑⱄⱅⰻ (sěsti)
    • Bulgarian: ся́дам (sjádam)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: се̏сти
      Latin: sȅsti
      • Chakavian (Vrgada): sȅsti
      • Chakavian (Brusje): sȅst
      • Chakavian (Orbanići): sȅs
      • Chakavian (Crikvenica): sȅst
      • Chakavian (Kukljica): sȇsti
      • Chakavian (Grobnik): sȅst
      • Chakavian (Stinatz): s'iest
      • Kajkavian (Bednja): sȃsti
      • Kajkavian (Čabar): s'est
      • Kajkavian (Varaždin): s'ȩsti
    • Slovene: sẹ́sti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sěsti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 447: “v. ‘sit down’”
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