Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ritь

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 Proto-Indo-European *rēyti-. Cognate with Lithuanian ríetas (“thigh, loin”), Latvian riẽta (“thigh, haunch”), Old Armenian երի (eri).

Noun

*ritь f

1. buttock

Declension

Declension of *ritь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ritь	*riti	*riti
genitive	*riti	*ritьju, *riťu*	*ritьjь, *riti*
dative	*riti	*ritьma	*ritьmъ
accusative	*ritь	*riti	*riti
instrumental	*ritьjǫ, *riťǫ*	*ritьma	*ritьmi
locative	*riti	*ritьju, *riťu*	*ritьxъ
vocative	*riti	*riti	*riti

^* 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: рить (ritĭ, “hoof”)
• South Slavic:
  • Church Slavonic: рить (ritĭ, “buttocks”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: rȉt

    Cyrillic script: ри̏т

  • Slovene: rȉt (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: rzëc
  • Old Czech: řit
    • Czech: řiť
  • Polish: rzyć
  • Silesian: rzić
  • Slovak: riť
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: riś
    • Upper Sorbian: rić

Further reading

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