Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/letěti
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
Formed as *letъ (“flight”) + *-ěti from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lekt-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lek-. Akin to Lithuanian lė̃kti (“to fly”), 3sg. lẽkia, Latvian lèkt (“to jump, (rarely) to fly”), 3sg. lec, Ancient Greek ληκάω (lēkáō, “to dance to music”), Middle High German lecken (“to hop”).
Verb edit
- to fly
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of *letěti, *letě, *letitь (impf., intr., -ě/i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm c)
Suffix: *-ěti
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
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*letěnьje | *letěti | *letětъ | *letělъ |
Participles | ||
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Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | — | — |
Active | *letěvъ | *letę |
Aorist | Present | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *letěxъ | *letě | *letě | *leťǫ | *letiši | *letitь |
Dual | *letěxově | *letěsta | *letěste | *letivě | *letita | *letite |
Plural | *letěxomъ | *letěste | *letěšę | *letimъ | *letite | *letętь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *letěaxъ | *letěaše | *letěaše | — | *leti | *leti |
Dual | *letěaxově | *letěašeta | *letěašete | *letivě | *letita | — |
Plural | *letěaxomъ | *letěašete | *letěaxǫ | *letimъ | *letite | — |
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References edit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*letěti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 271: “v. (c) ‘fly’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “letěti: letjǫ letitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c flyve (PR 139)”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “letẹ́ti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*letě̋ti”