Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/gā́ˀtei
Proto-Balto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *gʷéh₂-t ~ *gʷh₂-ént, from *gʷeh₂- (“to step, to tread”).
Verb
edit*gā́ˀtei
Usage notes
editOriginally a root-aorist, the verb either has become suppletive to synonymous *eitei (filling up the role of the aorist) or acquired je-present counterpart. Slavic languages have preserved deverbial nouns and a secondary causative derived from the verb-stem, but the base verb itself was lost.
Inflection
editProbably fixed accent with je-present (in some dialects).
Related terms
edit- *gā́ˀźtei (“to wade, to trample, to overturn”)
Descendants
edit- East Baltic:
- Proto-Slavic: *gati
Further reading
edit- Derksen, Rick (2015) “goti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 184
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gatъ, *gatь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 162
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gatiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 105
- “goti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012