Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/peťь

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 earlier *pektь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pektis, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-tis, from *pekʷ- (to cook). Equivalent to *peťi +‎ *-tь.

    Noun

    *pȅťь f[1]

    1. oven

    Inflection

    Declension of *pȅťь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
    singular dual plural
    nominative *pȅťь *pȅťi *pȅťi
    genitive *peťí *peťьjù, *peťu* *peťь̀jь
    dative *pȅťi *peťьmà *pȅťьmъ
    accusative *pȅťь *pȅťi *pȅťi
    instrumental *peťьjǫ́ *peťьmà *peťьmì
    locative *peťí *peťьjù, *peťu* *pȅťьxъ
    vocative *peťi *pȅťi *pȅťi

    * 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).

    Descendants

    • East Slavic:
      • Old East Slavic: печь (pečĭ)
        • Belarusian: печ (pječ)
        • Russian: печь (pečʹ) (see there for further descendants)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: піч (pič)
        • Ukrainian: піч (pič)
    • South Slavic:
    • West Slavic:
      • Old Czech: pec
      • Old Polish: piec
        • Polish: piec
          • Old Ruthenian: пецъ (pecʹ)
        • Silesian: piec
      • Old Slovak: pec
      • Polabian: pic
      • Pomeranian:
      • Sorbian:
        • Lower Sorbian: pjac
        • Upper Sorbian: pěc
    • Proto-Finnic: *päcci

    Further reading

    • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “печь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

    References

    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pȇktь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 393