From *kõltъ (“club? log? sledgehammer?”) + *-iti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kálˀtas, from the Proto-Balto-Slavic root *kalˀ-. Cognate with Lithuanian káltas (“chisel”), Latvian kal̃ts (“chisel, small hammer”). See *kòlti (“to stab, to sting”) for further etymology.
*kōltìti[1][2]
- to shake, to strike
Conjugation of
*koltiti, *kolti, *koltitь (?,
-i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)
Verbal noun
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Infinitive
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Supine
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L-participle
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*kolťenьje
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*koltiti
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*koltitъ
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*koltilъ
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Participles
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Tense
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Past
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Present
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Passive
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*kolťenъ
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*koltimъ
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Active
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*kolťь
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*koltę
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Aorist
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Present
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Person
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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Singular
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*koltixъ |
*kolti |
*kolti
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*kolťǫ |
*koltiši |
*koltitь
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Dual
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*koltixově |
*koltista |
*koltiste
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*koltivě |
*koltita |
*koltite
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Plural
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*koltixomъ |
*koltiste |
*koltišę
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*koltimъ |
*koltite |
*koltętь
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Imperfect
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Imperative
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Person
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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Singular
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*kolťaaxъ |
*kolťaaše |
*kolťaaše
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— |
*kolti |
*kolti
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Dual
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*kolťaaxově |
*kolťaašeta |
*kolťaašete
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*koltivě |
*koltita |
—
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Plural
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*kolťaaxomъ |
*kolťaašete |
*kolťaaxǫ
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*koltimъ |
*koltite |
—
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Notes: - (*)*koltivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: колотити (kolotiti) (17th century)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “колоти́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*koltiti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 156
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*koltìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 230: “v. (b) ‘shake, strike’”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “klatīti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*kolti̋ti”