Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čuti

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

Continuing Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwh₁eti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to perceive”). Akin to Lithuanian kavoti (“to ward, to tend”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *kuHáti, Ancient Greek κοέω (koéō, “to be aware, to know”), Latin caveō (“to be aware, to watch over”), Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (“to look, to display”).

Probably related (via other extensions) to verbs denoting swinging, flashing such as *kyvati (“to nod”), *kuti (“to forge”), *kymati (“to wing, to blink”).

Verb

*čùti impf (perfective *čuvati)

1. to sense
2. to feel

Inflection

Conjugation of *čuti, *ču, *čujetь (impf., -V-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*čutьje	*čuti	*čutъ	*čulъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*čutъ	*čujemъ
Active	*čuvъ	*čuję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*čuxъ	*ču	*ču	*čujǫ	*čuješi	*čujetь
Dual	*čuxově	*čusta	*čuste	*čujevě	*čujeta	*čujete
Plural	*čuxomъ	*čuste	*čušę	*čujemъ	*čujete	*čujǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*čujaaxъ	*čujaaše	*čujaaše	—	*čuji	*čuji
Dual	*čujaaxově	*čujaašeta	*čujaašete	*čujivě	*čujita	—
Plural	*čujaaxomъ	*čujaašete	*čujaaxǫ	*čujimъ	*čujite	—

Derived terms

• *čudlo (“sense”)
• *čuvьstvo (“feeling, sense”)
• *čutьje (“perception”)
• *čutъkъ (“attentive, careful”)
  • *čutъka (“indication, something perceived”)
• *čutьnъ (“sensuous, sensible”)

Related terms

• *čuxati (“to grasp, to get a sense of”)
• *čujati (“to comprehend (with the senses)”)
• *čujьnъ (“sensible, sensuous”)

Descendants

• Old East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: чути (čuti)
    • Belarusian: чуць (čucʹ)
    • Russian: чуть (čutʹ), чу́ять (čújatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: чу́ти (čúty), чу́яти (čújaty)
  • Old Novgorodian: цоути (cuti)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: чоути (čuti)

    Glagolitic script: ⱍⱆⱅⰻ (čuti)

  • Bulgarian: чу́я (čúja)
  • Macedonian: чуе (čue)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чу̏ти

    Latin script: čȕti

  • Slovene: čúti (tonal orthography) (archaic)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: czëc
  • Old Czech: čúti
    • Czech: čít
  • Old Polish: czuć
    • Masurian: cucz
    • Polish: czuć
    • Silesian: czuć
  • Slovak: čuť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: čuć
    • Lower Sorbian: cuś

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чу́ю”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “чуять”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 397
• Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “чоути”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 786
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čuti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 134