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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pǫtь

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 *pántis/*pintis, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from *pent-. Cognate with Old Prussian pintis (“way, road”).

Noun

*pǫ̃tь m[1]

  1. way, path

Declension
Declension of *pǫ̃tь (i-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *pǫ̃tь *pǭtì *pǫ̃tьjē, *pǫ̃ťē*
genitive *pǫ̃ti *pǫ̃tьju, *pǫťu* *pǭtь̀jь, *pǫ̃ti*
dative *pǭtì *pǫ̃tьma *pǭtь̀mъ
accusative *pǫ̃tь *pǭtì *pǭtì
instrumental *pǭtь̀mь *pǫ̃tьma *pǫ̃tьmī
locative *pǫ̃ti *pǫ̃tьju, *pǫťu* *pǭtь̀xъ
vocative *pǫti *pǭtì *pǫ̃tьjē, *pǫ̃ťē*
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: путь (putĭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: пѫть (pǫtĭ)
      Glagolitic: ⱂⱘⱅⱐ (pǫtĭ)
    • Bulgarian: път (pǎt), пънт (pǎnt) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: пат (pat)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: пу̑т
      Latin script: pȗt
    • Slovene: pọ̑t (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “путь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “путь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 85

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pǫ́tь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 417
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