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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sěťi

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 *sektei, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”), with unexplained -ě-. Cognate with Latin secō (“to cut, to mow”). Explanations for the -ě- vary:

  • Rix (LIV) reconstructs an acrodynamic (Narten) present *sēk-. (In the Leiden school view of Derksen and Kortlandt, this would not yield the required acute vowel.)
  • Kortlandt asserts that the vowel of *sěkti was lengthened to disambiguate the verb from the root preserved in Lithuanian sèkti (“to watch, to follow”), Proto-Slavic *sočiti (“to pursue, to indicate”) < Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.
  • Derksen notes that the short root vowel is preserved in секыра (sekyra, “axe”).

Verb

*sěťi impf[1]

  1. to cut, mow

Inflection
Conjugation of *sěťi, *sěče, *sěčetь (impf., -C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm c)
Verbal noun Infinitive Supine L-participle
*sěčenьje *sěťi *sěťь *sěklъ
Participles
Tense Past Present
Passive *sěčenъ *sěkomъ
Active *sěkъ *sěky
Aorist Present
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Singular *sěk(ox)ъ*sěče*sěče *sěkǫ*sěčeši*sěčetь
Dual *sěk(ox)ově*sěk(e/os)ta*sěk(e/os)te *sěčevě*sěčeta*sěčete
Plural *sěk(ox)omъ*sěk(e/os)te*sěkǫ, *sěkošę *sěčemъ*sěčete*sěkǫtь
Imperfect Imperative
Person 1st2nd3rd 1st2nd3rd
Singular *sěčaaxъ*sěčaaše*sěčaaše —*sěci*sěci
Dual *sěčaaxově*sěčaašeta*sěčaašete *sěcěvě*sěcěta—
Plural *sěčaaxomъ*sěčaašete*sěčaaxǫ *sěcěmъ*sěcěte—

Derived terms

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: сѣчи (sěči)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “секу”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “сечь”, 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 159

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*sěkti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 446: “v. (c) ‘cut, mow’”
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