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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mьstiti

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 *mьstь (revenge, vengeance) + *-iti.

Verb

*mьstiti[1]

  1. to avenge, to take vengeance upon

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: мьстити (mĭstiti)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: мьстити (mĭstiti)
      Glagolitic: ⰿⱐⱄⱅⰻⱎⰻ (mĭstiši)
    • Bulgarian: мъстя́ (mǎstjá)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: мастити (archaic?)
      Latin: mastiti (archaic?)
    • Slovene: məstīti (tonal orthography) (obsolete)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: mstiti
    • Kashubian: mscëc
    • Old Polish: mścić
    • Slovak: mstiť (archaic)
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: msćiś (archaic)

Further reading

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “месть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 526
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “месть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мстить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mьstiti (sę) I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 21 (*mъrskovatъjь – *nadějьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 172

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mьstiti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 343:v. ‘take vengeance, revenge, avenge’
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