Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kresiti

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

Alternative forms

  • *krěsiti

Etymology

See *kresati.

Verb

*kresiti[1][2]

  1. to strike fire

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: крѣсити (krěsiti)
      • Russian: кре́сить (krésitʹ) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: кре́сити
      Latin script: krésiti
    • Slovene: krésiti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: křísit
    • Old Polish: krzesić
    • Slovak: kriesiť

References

  1. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001), “krěsiti: krěsjǫ krěsitь b (SA 260); c (PR 140)”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander
  2. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*kresiti/*krěsiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 126