Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/striťi

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 *streyg-. Cognate with Latin stringere (“to skim, to scratch”), Old English strīcan (“to rub, to wander, to brush past”).

Verb

*striťi impf

1. to cut (hair, fleece, grass), to shear
2. to slip

Inflection

Conjugation of *striťi, *striže, *strižetь (impf., -C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm c)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*striženьje	*striťi	*striťь	*striglъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*striženъ	*strigomъ
Active	*strigъ	*strigy

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*strig(ox)ъ	*striže	*striže	*strigǫ	*strižeši	*strižetь
Dual	*strig(ox)ově	*strig(e/os)ta	*strig(e/os)te	*striževě	*strižeta	*strižete
Plural	*strig(ox)omъ	*strig(e/os)te	*strigǫ, *strigošę	*strižemъ	*strižete	*strigǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*strižaaxъ	*strižaaše	*strižaaše	—	*stridzi	*stridzi
Dual	*strižaaxově	*strižaašeta	*strižaašete	*stridzěvě	*stridzěta	—
Plural	*strižaaxomъ	*strižaašete	*strižaaxǫ	*stridzěmъ	*stridzěte	—

Notes:
• Aorist *strigeste ⇒ *strižeste, ...

Related terms

• *strižьka (“haircut, hairdo”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: стричи (striči)
    • Belarusian: стры́гчы (strýhčy)
    • Russian: стричь (stričʹ)
    • Ukrainian: стри́гти (strýhty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: стрищи (strišti)

    Glagolitic: ⱄⱅⱃⰻⱋⰻ (strišti)

  • Bulgarian: стри́жа (stríža)
  • Macedonian: стриже (striže)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: стри̏ћи

    Latin script: strȉći

  • Slovene: stríči (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: strzic, strzëgac
  • Old Czech: střieci, stříci, střežiti, střihati, střiehati
    • Czech: stříci, střežit, střihat, stříhat
  • Polabian: straizăt
  • Old Polish: strzyc
    • Polish: strzyc
  • Slovak: strihať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: třihać
    • Lower Sorbian: stśigaś

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 469
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стригу́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress