Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pamętati

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 *pàmę̄tь (“memory”) +‎ *-ati.

Verb

*pamętàti impf

1. to remember

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: памѧта́ти (pamjatáti), памєта́ти (pamjetáti)
    • Belarusian: па́мятаць (pámjatacʹ), памята́ць (pamjatácʹ); па́мітаць (pámitacʹ), па́мітыць (pámitycʹ), па́матаць (pámatacʹ), памета́ть (pamjetátʹ), пам'ята́ць (pamʺjatácʹ), памата́ць (pamatácʹ), паміта́ць (pamitácʹ), помыта́ты (pomytáty), пом'ята́ты (pomʺjatáty), памэта́ці (pametáci), помынта́ты (pomyntáty), помы^эта́ты (pómy^etáty), памета́ць (pamjetácʹ) (dialectal)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: памята́ти (pamjatáty)
    • Ukrainian: пам'ята́ти (pamʺjatáty), памнята́ти (pamnjatáty); памята́ть (pamjatátʹ) (Kuban dialect)
  • Middle Russian: памѧта́ти (pamjatáti), помѧта́ти (pomjatáti) (15ᵗʰ c.)
    • Russian: памята́ть (pamjatátʹ), па́мятать (pámjatatʹ) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: па́метам (pámetam) (dialectal); паме́туйам (pamétujam) (rare, dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: помѐтати, помѐта̄м (dialectal)

    Latin script: pomètati, pomètām (dialectal)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pamatat, pamatať, pamětať (dialectal)
  • Old Polish: pamiętać
    • Masurian: paniéntacz
    • Polish: pamiętać
    • Silesian: pamiyntać
  • Old Slovak: pamätať
    • Slovak: pametac (dialectal)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: pamiãtac
    • Slovincian: pamjãtac

Further reading

• Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2018), “*pamętati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 41 (*pala – *pažьnъ(јь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 77