Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/degъtь

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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *degut(j)as, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-. Equivalent to Pre-Slavic *degti (“to burn, to heat”) +‎ *-ъtь.

Since Baltic forms have a clear connection between each noun and verb (cf. Lithuanian degùtas : dègti; Latvian deguts (“birch tar”) : degt) and Common Slavic has only *žeťi as a verb, *degъtь seems to be of Baltic origin. But Brückner did not see Polish dziegieć as Baltic borrowing^[1] and Derksen regards this term as a relic of Proto-Indo-European form^[2]

Noun edit

*degъtь m^[2]

tar

Related terms edit

*žeťi (“to burn”)

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: дзёгаць (dzjóhacʹ)
- Russian: дёготь (djógotʹ)
- Ukrainian: дьоготь (dʹohotʹ); (dialectal) де́готь (déhotʹ), ді́готь (díhotʹ)
West Slavic:
- Czech: dehet
- Kashubian: dzekc, dzegc
- Polish: dziegieć
- Slovak: decht

→ Hungarian: deget

References edit

^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “dziegieć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 109
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*degъtь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 98

[1] Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “dziegieć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 109

[EDSIL-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*degъtь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 98

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