Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tęgnǫti

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 *tęťi (“to pull”) + *-nǫti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ting-, *teng-, from Proto-Indo-European *tengʰ-.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian tìngti (“to become slow”) (3sg. tìngsta), tingė́ti (“to be lazy”) (3sg. tìngi).

Indo-European cognates include Old Norse þyngja (“burden”), þīsl (“drawbar, shaft”), Old High German dīhsala (“drawbar, shaft”), Latin tēmō (“drawbar, shaft”) < *tenk-smō.

Verb

*tęgnǫti impf

1. to pull

Inflection

Conjugation of *tęgnǫti, *tęgnǫ, *tęgnetь (impf., -n-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*tęgnovenьje	*tęgnǫti	*tęgnǫtъ	*tęgnǫlъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*tęgnovenъ	*tęgnomъ
Active	*tęgnǫvъ	*tęgny

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*tęgnǫxъ	*tęgnǫ	*tęgnǫ	*tęgnǫ	*tęgneši	*tęgnetь
Dual	*tęgnǫxově	*tęgnǫsta	*tęgnǫste	*tęgnevě	*tęgneta	*tęgnete
Plural	*tęgnǫxomъ	*tęgnǫste	*tęgnǫšę	*tęgnemъ	*tęgnete	*tęgnǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*tęgněaxъ	*tęgněaše	*tęgněaše	—	*tęgni	*tęgni
Dual	*tęgněaxově	*tęgněašeta	*tęgněašete	*tęgněvě	*tęgněta	—
Plural	*tęgněaxomъ	*tęgněašete	*tęgněaxǫ	*tęgněmъ	*tęgněte	—

Related terms

• *tędzati (“to pull, extract”)
• *tęgъ / *tęga (“traction, weight”)
• *tęžьkъ (“heavy”)
• *tęťi (“to pull”)
• *tęželъ
• *tǫga (“sadness”)
• *tǫgъ (“tight, solid, tough”)

Derived terms

• *natęgnǫti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: тꙗгнꙋти (tjagnuti), тꙗнꙋти (tjanuti)
    • Belarusian: цягну́ць (cjahnúcʹ)
    • Russian: тяну́ть (tjanútʹ), 1sg. тяну́ (tjanú), 3sg. тя́нет (tjánet)
    • Ukrainian: тягну́ти (tjahnúty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: тѧгнѫти (tęgnǫti), 1sg. тѧгнѫ (tęgnǫ)
  • Bulgarian: те́гна (tégna)
  • Macedonian: тегне (tegne)
  • Slovene: tė́gniti (“to provide, to stretch”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. tėgnem (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: cygnąc
  • Old Czech: táhnúti
    • Czech: táhnout
  • Polabian: tągnǫt
  • Polish: ciągnąć
  • Silesian: ciōngnōńć
  • Slovak: tiahnuť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: ćahnyć
    • Lower Sorbian: śěgnuś

References

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “тяну́ть”, 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 278
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*tęgnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 493
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тя́га”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress