Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pitati

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 the root of *pìťa (“food”) (from Proto-Indo-European *peyt-) + *-ati.

Verb

*pitati

1. to feed

Inflection

Conjugation of *pitati, *pita, *pitajetь (?, -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*pitanьje	*pitati	*pitatъ	*pitalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*pitanъ	*pitajemъ
Active	*pitavъ	*pitaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*pitaxъ	*pita	*pita	*pitajǫ	*pitaješi	*pitajetь
Dual	*pitaxově	*pitasta	*pitaste	*pitajevě	*pitajeta	*pitajete
Plural	*pitaxomъ	*pitaste	*pitašę	*pitajemъ	*pitajete	*pitajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*pitaaxъ	*pitaaše	*pitaaše	—	*pitaji	*pitaji
Dual	*pitaaxově	*pitaašeta	*pitaašete	*pitajivě	*pitajita	—
Plural	*pitaaxomъ	*pitaašete	*pitaaxǫ	*pitajimъ	*pitajite	—

Related terms

• *pitěti (“to feed”)
• *pìťa (“food”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: питати (pitati), 1sg. питаю (pitaju)
    • Russian: пита́ть (pitátʹ), 1sg. пита́ю (pitáju)
    • Ukrainian: (пропита́ти (propytáty))
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: питати (pitati, “to feed, to raise”), 1sg. питаѭ (pitajǫ)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: пита́я (pitája)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пи̏тати, 1sg. пи̏та̄м

    Latin: pȉtati, 1sg. pȉtām

  • Slovene: pítati (“to fatten, to feed”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. pȋtam (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pitati

References

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пита́ть”, 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 36
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pitati”, 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) “пита́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress