Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sito

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-Balto-Slavic *séiˀta (“sieve”).

Noun

*sìto n

1. sieve

Inflection

Declension of *sìto (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sìto	*sìtě	*sìta
genitive	*sìta	*sìtu	*sìtъ
dative	*sìtu	*sìtoma	*sìtomъ
accusative	*sìto	*sìtě	*sìta
instrumental	*sìtъmь, *sìtomь*	*sìtoma	*sìtȳ
locative	*sìtě	*sìtu	*sìtě̄xъ
vocative	*sìto	*sìtě	*sìta

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

See also

• *prosějati (“to sift”)
• *sěti (“to sift”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сито (sito)
    • Belarusian: сі́та (síta)
    • Russian: си́то (síto)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: сито (syto)
    • Ukrainian: си́то (sýto)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: сито (sito)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⰻⱅⱁ (sito)

  • Bulgarian: си́то (síto)
  • Macedonian: сито (sito)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: си̏то

    Latin script: sȉto

  • Slovene: sítọ
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: síto
    • Czech: síto
      • Moravian (Mistřice): sito
  • Kashubian:
  • Polabian:
  • Polish: sito
  • Silesian: sito
  • Slovak: sito
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: syto

• Non-Slavic:
  • Albanian: sitë
  • Aromanian: sitã
  • Hungarian: szita
  • Romanian: sită

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сито”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “сито”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 360