Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/piťa

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

Normally reconstructed as stemming from Proto-Indo-European *peyH-. Derksen considers it more likely to stem from Proto-Balto-Slavic *peit-, from Proto-Indo-European *peyt-, assumed to be from the same root *pey- that underlies *peyH- but with a different root extension. Cognates involving *peyt- include Lithuanian piẽtūs (“dinner”, pl.), Sanskrit पितु (pitú, “nutrition”), Avestan 𐬞𐬌𐬙𐬎 (pitu, “food”), 𐬞𐬌𐬚𐬎𐬎𐬁 (piθuuā, “food”), Old Irish ithid (“to eat”), Boeotian dialectal Ancient Greek πιτεύω (piteúō, “to irrigate, to water (cattle)”). Cognates involving *peyH- include Sanskrit पीवन् (pī́van, “fat”), English fat and many other words; see the root for more cognates.

Noun

*pìťa f

1. food

Inflection

Declension of *pìťa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pìťa	*pìťi	*pìťę̇
genitive	*pìťę̇	*pìťu	*pìťь
dative	*pìťī	*pìťama	*pìťāmъ
accusative	*pìťǫ	*pìťi	*pìťę̇
instrumental	*pìťējǫ, *pìťǭ*	*pìťama	*pìťāmī
locative	*pìťī	*pìťu	*pìťāsъ
vocative	*pìťe	*pìťi	*pìťę̇

^* 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).

Related terms

• *pitati, *pitěti (“to feed”)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: пища (pišta, “food, bliss”), піца (pica)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⰻⱎⱅⰰ (pišta), ⱂⰹⱌⰰ (pica)

    • → Old East Slavic: пища (pišča)
      • Russian: пи́ща (píšča, “food”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пи̏ћа (“food, fodder”)

    Latin script: pȉća (“food, fodder”)

  • Slovene: píča (“food, fodder”) (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pícě
    • Czech: píce (“fodder”)
  • Old Polish: pica (“fodder, victuals”)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: pica (“food, fodder”)
    • Lower Sorbian: pica (“food, fodder”)

References

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пи́ща”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 37
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pìtja”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 401
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пи́ща”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “piẽtūs”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 354