Old East Slavic edit

Etymology edit

From тъщати (tŭščati, to hasten) +‎ -сѧ (-sę).

Pronunciation edit

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /tʊˈɕt͡ɕɑtisɛ̃/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /tʊˈɕt͡ɕatʲisʲa/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈtɕt͡ɕatʲisʲa/
  • Hyphenation: тъ‧ща‧ти‧сѧ

Verb edit

тъщатисѧ (tŭščatisęimpf

  1. (intransitive) to hurry
  2. (auxiliary) to strive to; to try to
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik[1], page 2:
      ѥгда чьтеши книгꙑ· не тъштисѧ бърꙁо иштисти до дроугыꙗ главиꙁнꙑ·
      jegda čĭteši knigy· ne tŭštisę bŭrzo ištisti do drugyja glavizny·
      when you read books, don't strive to quickly read on to the following chapter.

Conjugation edit

Descendants edit

  • Russian: тщи́ться (tščítʹsja)

References edit

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “тъщатисѧ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[2] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1061