Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/obuti

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *apauti. From *ob (“around, against”) +‎ *uti (“to put on footwear”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *áutei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ew- (“to adorn, wear”). Cognate with Lithuanian aũti (“to put on footwear”), 1sg. Lithuanian aunù, Latvian àut (“to put on footwear”), and further with Latin induere (“to put on clothes”), Latin exuere (“to take off clothes”), Hittite [script needed] (unu-, “to adorn; to set (a table)”).

Verb

*obuti pf (imperfective *obuvati)

1. to put on footwear

Inflection

Conjugation of *obuti, *obu, *obujetь (perf., -V-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*obutьje	*obuti	*obutъ	*obulъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*obutъ	—
Active	*obuvъ	—

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*obuxъ	*obu	*obu	*obujǫ	*obuješi	*obujetь
Dual	*obuxově	*obusta	*obuste	*obujevě	*obujeta	*obujete
Plural	*obuxomъ	*obuste	*obušę	*obujemъ	*obujete	*obujǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	—	—	—	—	*obuji	*obuji
Dual	—	—	—	*obujivě	*obujita	—
Plural	—	—	—	*obujimъ	*obujite	—

Notes:
• In perfective verbs, present expresses future

Derived terms

• *obuťa
• *obuvati

Related terms

• *jьzuti
• *onuťa
• *orzuti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: обути (obuti)
    • Old Ruthenian: обу́ти (obúti)
      • Belarusian: абу́ць (abúcʹ)
      • Ukrainian: обу́ти (obúty)
    • Russian: обу́ть (obútʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: обути (obuti)

    Glagolitic script: ⱁⰱⱆⱅⰻ (obuti)

  • Bulgarian: обу́я (obúja)
  • Macedonian: обуе (obue)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̀бути

    Latin script: òbuti

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): obȕti
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): ubȕt
  • Slovene: obúti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: obúti
    • Czech: obout
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): vobout
      • Moravian (Mistřice): obut
  • Old Polish: obuć
    • Polish: obuć
  • Slovak: obuť
  • Slovincian: wôbúc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wobuć
    • Lower Sorbian: wobuś

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “обу́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “обуть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 589
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2003), “*obuti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 30 (*obsojьnikъ – *obvedьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 246