Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/obrěsti
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom *ob- + an obscure element *rět-, possibly from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wrēt-, also found in Proto-Slavic *sъrěsti (“to encounter”). Cognate with Lithuanian surė̃sti (“to seize”). Per Trubachev, the most likely cognates are Ancient Greek εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find, to acquire”) (aor. εὗρον (heûron)), Old Irish ·fúar (“I found”) < *wewr- (3sg. passive -fríth (“it was found”) < *wrē-to), Old Armenian գերեմ (gerem, “to capture, take prisoner”). However, LIV derives these from *wreh₁- (“to find”) (Matasović similarly from *werh₁- (“to find”)), and tentatively derives the Slavic verb from a verbal root Proto-Indo-European *reh₁t- (“to encounter, to find”).
Verb
edit*obrěsti
- to find
Inflection
editConjugation of *obrěsti, *obrěte, *obręťetь (perf., tr., -C/j-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
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*obrětenьje | *obrěsti | *obrěstъ | *obrětlъ |
Participles | ||
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Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *obrětenъ | — |
Active | *obrětъ | — |
Aorist | Present | |||||
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Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *obrět(ox)ъ | *obrěte | *obrěte | *obręťǫ | *obręťeši | *obręťetь |
Dual | *obrět(ox)ově | *obrět(e/os)ta | *obrět(e/os)te | *obręťevě | *obręťeta | *obręťete |
Plural | *obrět(ox)omъ | *obrět(e/os)te | *obrětǫ, *obrětošę | *obręťemъ | *obręťete | *obręťǫtь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | — | — | — | — | *obręťi | *obręťi |
Dual | — | — | — | *obręťivě | *obręťita | — |
Plural | — | — | — | *obręťimъ | *obręťite | — |
- Notes:
- In perfective verbs, present expresses future
Related terms
edit- *sъrěsti (“to encounter”)
Descendants
edit- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: obrẹ́sti (“to find”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. obrẹ́tem (tonal orthography)
References
edit- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*obrěsti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 362
- Skok, Petar (1973) “Proto-Slavic/obrěsti”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 319
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2002), “*obrěsti (sę), *obręt(j)ǫ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 29 (*obpovědati – *obsojьnica), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 74