Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/peťь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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
Accusative	*pȅťь	*pȅťi	*pȅťi
Genitive	*peťí	*peťьjù, *peťu*	*peťь̀jь
Locative	*peťí	*peťьjù, *peťu*	*pȅťьxъ
Dative	*pȅťi	*peťьmà	*pȅťьmъ
Instrumental	*peťьjǫ́	*peťьmà	*peťьmì
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)
    • Ukrainian: піч (pič)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пещ (pešt)
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: пещь (peštĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⰵⱋⱐ (peštĭ)

    • → Russian: пещь (peščʹ) (obsolete)
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: пе̑ћ

    Latin: pȇć

    • Chakavian: pȇć
    • Kajkavian: peč
    • Slavomolisano: peč
  • Slovene: pẹ̑č (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pec
  • Polabian: pic
  • Polish: piec
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: piec
  • Slovak: pec
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pjac
    • Upper Sorbian: pěc

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) , “печь”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubačóv, Moscow: Progress