Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kyvati
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *kh₁u-, from the root *keh₁w-. Cognate with Latin cēveō (“to move the backside in a lewd manner, to twerk”). Vasmer suggests a possible additional cognate in Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (skēwjan, “to wander”), while Chernykh adds as possibilities Ossetian чи́уын (ḱíwyn, “to stagger, to stumble”) (also кеун (kewn)), Central Kurdish کەیان (keyan, “to waver, to wobble”).
Verb edit
*kyvati impf[1]
- to nod
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *kyvati, *kyva, *kyvajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Suffix: *-ati
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
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*kyvanьje | *kyvati | *kyvatъ | *kyvalъ |
Participles | ||
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Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *kyvanъ | *kyvajemъ |
Active | *kyvavъ | *kyvaję |
Aorist | Present | |||||
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Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *kyvaxъ | *kyva | *kyva | *kyvajǫ | *kyvaješi | *kyvajetь |
Dual | *kyvaxově | *kyvasta | *kyvaste | *kyvajevě | *kyvajeta | *kyvajete |
Plural | *kyvaxomъ | *kyvaste | *kyvašę | *kyvajemъ | *kyvajete | *kyvajǫtь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *kyvaaxъ | *kyvaaše | *kyvaaše | — | *kyvaji | *kyvaji |
Dual | *kyvaaxově | *kyvaašeta | *kyvaašete | *kyvajivě | *kyvajita | — |
Plural | *kyvaaxomъ | *kyvaašete | *kyvaaxǫ | *kyvajimъ | *kyvajite | — |
Derived terms edit
- *kyvъkъ (“nod”)
Related terms edit
- *kyti (“to pound, to wing”)
- *kyjati (“to flap, to knock (with a hammer)”)
- *kymъ (“nod”)
- *kymati (“to nod”)
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: кꙑвати (kyvati)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: ки́вам (kívam) (dialectal)
- Slovene: kívati (tonal orthography) (obsolete, dialectal)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading edit
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “кива́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 394
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кива́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*keh₁u̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 343
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kyvati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 283
References edit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kyvati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 267: “v. ‘nod’”