Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dǫti

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 *dúmˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰemH-.

Verb

*dǫ̀ti impf

1. to blow

Inflection

Accent paradigm a or b.

• 1sg. *dъmǫ

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дѫти (dǫti), дꙋти (duti)
    • Belarusian: дуць (ducʹ), дзьмуць (dzʹmucʹ)
    • Russian: дуть (dutʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ду́ти (dúty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: дѫти (dǫti)

    Glagolitic: ⰴⱘⱅⰻ (dǫti)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ду̏ти

    Latin script: dȕti

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dúti
    • Czech: dout (literary)
  • Kashubian: dic, dąc
  • Polabian: dåmĕ (3sg.)
  • Polish: dąć
  • Slovak: dmuť
  • Slovincian: dyc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: duć
    • Lower Sorbian: duś

From *nadǫti

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: на̀дути

  Latin script: nàduti

• Slovene: nadọ́ti (tonal orthography)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 99