Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/peťь

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 earlier *pektь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pektis, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-tis, from *pekʷ- (“to cook”). Equivalent to *peťi +‎ *-tь.

Noun

*pȅťь f

1. oven

Inflection

Declension of *pȅťь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pȅťь	*pȅťi	*pȅťi
genitive	*peťí	*peťьjù, *peťu*	*peťь̀jь
dative	*pȅťi	*peťьmà	*pȅťьmъ
accusative	*pȅťь	*pȅťi	*pȅťi
instrumental	*peťьjǫ́	*peťьmà	*peťьmì
locative	*peťí	*peťьjù, *peťu*	*pȅťьxъ
vocative	*peťi	*pȅťi	*pȅťi

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: печь (pečĭ)
    • Belarusian: печ (pječ)
    • Russian: печь (pečʹ) (see there for further descendants)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: піч (pič)
    • Ukrainian: піч (pič)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пещ (pešt)
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: пещь (peštĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⰵⱋⱐ (peštĭ)

    • → Russian: пещь (peščʹ) (obsolete)
    • → Hungarian: Pest
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пе̑ћ

    Latin script: pȇć

    • Chakavian: pȇć
    • Kajkavian: peč
    • Slavomolisano: peč
  • Slovene: pẹ̑č (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pec
    • Czech: pec
  • Kashubian: piec
  • Polabian: pic
  • Old Polish: piec
    • Polish: piec m
    • → Old Ruthenian: пєцъ m (pjecʹ)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: пец m (pec) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: п'єц m (pʺjec) (dialectal)
    • Silesian: piyc
  • Old Slovak: pec
    • Pannonian Rusyn: пец (pec)
    • Slovak: pec
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pjac
    • Upper Sorbian: pěc

• → Proto-Finnic: *päcci
  • Finnish: pätsi
  • Karelian: päčči
  • Venda: päc

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “печь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress