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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pečatь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably a contamination of an earlier *pečětь (“brand”), formed as *pekti (“to bake, to cook”) + *-ětь, under the influence of an Oghur term (per BER) surviving as Chuvash пичет (pič̬et, “seal, cachet”).
Inflection
Declension of *pečatь (i-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *pečatь | *pečati | *pečatьjē, *pečaťē* |
genitive | *pečatī | *pečatьju, *pečaťu* | *pečatьjь, *pečatī* |
dative | *pečati | *pečatьma | *pečatьmъ |
accusative | *pečatь | *pečati | *pečati |
instrumental | *pečatьmь | *pečatьma | *pečatьmī |
locative | *pečatī | *pečatьju, *pečaťu* | *pečatьxъ |
vocative | *pečati | *pečati | *pečatьjē, *pečaťē* |
* 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
- *pečatati (“to print”)
- *pečatьlěti (“to impress”)
- *vъpečatьlenьje (“impression”)
- *vъpečatьlitelьnъ (“impressive”)
- *otъpečatьkъ (“imprint”)
- *pečatьnъ (“printed”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “печать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “печа̀т”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 212
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001) “pečatь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016) “pečȃt”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*peča̋tь”
- Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2021), “*pečatъ / *pečatь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 42 (*peča – *perzъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 21
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