Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kasati

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 the same root as *česàti (“to scratch, to comb”). Cognate with Lithuanian kasýti (“to scratch constantly”), Latvian kasît (“to scratch, to rake, to plane”). See *česàti for further cognates.

Verb

*kasati impf

1. to touch? to trot? to fold?

Inflection

Conjugation of *kasati, *kasa, *kasajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*kasanьje	*kasati	*kasatъ	*kasalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*kasanъ	*kasajemъ
Active	*kasavъ	*kasaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*kasaxъ	*kasa	*kasa	*kasajǫ	*kasaješi	*kasajetь
Dual	*kasaxově	*kasasta	*kasaste	*kasajevě	*kasajeta	*kasajete
Plural	*kasaxomъ	*kasaste	*kasašę	*kasajemъ	*kasajete	*kasajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*kasaaxъ	*kasaaše	*kasaaše	—	*kasaji	*kasaji
Dual	*kasaaxově	*kasaašeta	*kasaašete	*kasajivě	*kasajita	—
Plural	*kasaaxomъ	*kasaašete	*kasaaxǫ	*kasajimъ	*kasajite	—

Related terms

• *česàti (“to scratch, to comb”)
• *kosnǫti (“to touch?”)
• *kosa (“(braided) hair”)
• *kosmъ (“lock of hair, tuft”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: касатисѧ (kasatisę, “to touch, to concern”)
    • Old Ruthenian: каса́ти (kasáti), каса́тисѧ (kasátisja)
      • >? Belarusian: каса́цца (kasácca) (dialectal)
        • ⇒? Belarusian: адка́сывацца (adkásyvacca) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: каса́тися (kasátysja) (obsolete)
    • Russian: каса́ться (kasátʹsja, “to touch, to concern”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: касати сѧ (kasati sę, “to touch”)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: каса́е се (kasáe se, “(it) concerns”, 3sg.)
  • Macedonian: каса (kasa, “to trot”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ка̏сати (“to trot, to walk quickly”)

    Latin: kȁsati (“to trot, to walk quickly”)

  • Slovene: kasati (“to walk while shaking one's head (of horses)”)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kasati (“to roll up”)
    • Czech: kasat (“to roll up”)
  • Old Polish: kasać (“to fold back, to tuck up”)
    • Polish: kasać (“to grab, to prepare, to climb, to aspire”) (obsolete or dialectal)
  • Slovak: kasať (“to roll up”)
  • Slovincian: kasac
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kasać (“to roll up”)
    • Lower Sorbian: kasaś (“to roll up, to lift”)

References

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “каса́ться”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 384
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kasati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 221
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kasati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 9 (*jьz – *klenьje), Moscow: Nauka, page 155
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “каса́ться”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress