Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/teti

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Alternative forms

• *tepti
• *tepsti

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *teptei, with a regular loss of medial *-p- in the infinitive stem due to the law of open syllables. p has been restored in many of the daughters by analogy with the present stem, and s has been inserted into the infinitive in many of the daughters by analogy with other verbs in -sti. Compare *greti (“to dig, to rake”).

Cognate with Lithuanian tèpti (“to smear, to grease, to soil”) (1sg. tepù), Latvian tept (“to smear, to grease”) (1sg. tepju).

• Per Derksen, only Balto-Slavic, without other Indo-European cognates.
• Vasmer adds as cognates Lithuanian tapýti (“to sculpt”) (1sg. tараũ), Lithuanian tapnóti, tapšnóti (“to pat with the hand”). In addition, he asserts that dialectal Russian тепсти́ (tepstí, “to pull, to drag”) is etymologically distinct, related to Lithuanian tem̃pti (“to pull”) (1sg. tempiù), temptýva (“string”), Russian тетива́ (tetivá, “string”), Lithuanian tampýti (“to pull”) (1sg. tampaũ).

Verb

*teti

1. to beat

Conjugation

Conjugation of *teti (?, -C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*tepenьje	*teti	*tetъ	*teplъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*tepenъ	*tepomъ
Active	*tepъ	*tepy

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*tep(ox)ъ	*tepe	*tepe	*tepǫ	*tepeši	*tepetь
Dual	*tep(ox)ově	*tep(e/os)ta	*tep(e/os)te	*tepevě	*tepeta	*tepete
Plural	*tep(ox)omъ	*tep(e/os)te	*tepǫ, *tepošę	*tepemъ	*tepete	*tepǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*tepěaxъ	*tepěaše	*tepěaše	—	*tepi	*tepi
Dual	*tepěaxově	*tepěašeta	*tepěašete	*tepěvě	*tepěta	—
Plural	*tepěaxomъ	*tepěašete	*tepěaxǫ	*tepěmъ	*tepěte	—

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: тети (teti)
    • Russian: тепти́ (teptí), тети́ (tetí) (Pskov dialect), тепсти́ (tepstí) (Vologda dialect), тёпать (tjópatʹ) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: тепти́ (teptý)
• South-Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: тети (teti)

    Glagolitic: ⱅⰵⱅⰹ (teti)

  • Bulgarian: те́пам (tépam)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: те̏псти

    Latin: tȅpsti

  • Slovene: tépsti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: tepat
  • Polish: ciepać (dialectal)
  • Slovak: tepať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: ćepać
    • Lower Sorbian: śepaś

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) , “*teti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 491
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) , “тепу́”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubačóv, Moscow: Progress