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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/degъtь

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 *degut(j)as, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-. Equivalent to Pre-Slavic *degti (“to burn, to heat”) +‎ *-ъtь.

Since Baltic forms have a clear connection between each noun and verb (cf. Lithuanian degùtas : dègti; Latvian deguts (“birch tar”) : degt) and Common Slavic has only *žeťi as a verb, *degъtь seems to be of Baltic origin. But Brückner did not see Polish dziegieć as Baltic borrowing[1] and Derksen regards this term as a relic of Proto-Indo-European form[2]

Noun

*degъtь m[2]

  1. tar

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: дзёгаць (dzjóhacʹ)
    • Russian: дёготь (djógotʹ)
    • Ukrainian: дьоготь (dʹohotʹ); (dialectal) де́готь (déhotʹ), ді́готь (díhotʹ)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “деготь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*degъtь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 204

References
  1. Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “dziegieć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 109
  2. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*degъtь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 98
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