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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sušiti

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 *saušīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sows-éye-ti, a causative/iterative formation built on Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- (to be dry) (also reconstructed as *sh₂ews-). Equivalent to *suxъ (dry) + *-iti.

Cognate with Lithuanian saũsinti (to dry (transitive)), saũsti (to wither), sùsti (to scab over) (1sg. susù), saũsas (dry), Latvian sust (to dry (intransitive)) (1sg. susu), susêt (to wither) (1sg. susu, susẽju), sàuss (dry), Old Prussian sausā (dry, fem. acc. sg.), Sanskrit शोषयति (śoṣáyati, to let dry), शुष्क (śúṣka, dry, barren), Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬱𐬐𐬀 (huška, dry), Homeric Ancient Greek αὖος (aûos, dry), Old English sēar (dry), English sere, sear.

Verb

sušìti impf

  1. (transitive) to dry

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: сꙋшити (sušiti)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: sušiti
    • Old Polish: suszyć
    • Slovak: sušiť
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: sušić
      • Lower Sorbian: sušyś

References

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “сухо́й”, 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 220
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*sušìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 474
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