речи

Bulgarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rɛˈt͡ʃi]

Verb

речи́ • (rečí)

1. second-person singular imperative of река́ (reká)

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *reťi. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic рещи (rešti) and Old Polish rzec.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈt͡ɕi/→/rʲɛˈt͡ɕi/→/rʲɛˈt͡ɕi/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /rɛˈt͡ɕi/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /rʲɛˈt͡ɕi/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /rʲɛˈt͡ɕi/

• Hyphenation: ре‧чи

Verb

речи (reči) impf

1. (transitive) to say
   • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎^[1], page 2:

     рече бо въ сьрдьци моѥмь съкрꙑхъ словеса твоꙗ да не съгрѣшѫ тебѣ·

     reče bo vŭ sĭrdĭci mojemĭ sŭkryxŭ slovesa tvoja da ne sŭgrěšǫ tebě·

     For [one] said: In my heart I hid your words so I won't commit a sin before you

Conjugation

Conjugation of речи (type I verb)

		Singular	Dual	Plural
Present	1st	рекѫ rekǫ	речевѣ rečevě	речемъ rečemŭ
	2nd	речеши rečeši	речета rečeta	речете rečete
	3rd	речеть rečetĭ	речета rečeta	рекѫть rekǫtĭ
Aorist	1st	рехъ rexŭ	реховѣ rexově	рехомъ rexomŭ
	2nd	ре re	реста resta	ресте reste
	3rd	ре re	реста resta	реша reša
Imperfect	1st	речахъ rečaxŭ	речаховѣ rečaxově	речахомъ rečaxomŭ
	2nd	речаше rečaše	речаста rečasta	речасте rečaste
	3rd	речаше rečaše	речаста rečasta	речахѫ, речахѫть rečaxǫ, rečaxǫtĭ
Imperative		реци reci	рецѣта recěta	рецѣте recěte
Cohortative		— —	рецѣвѣ recěvě	рецѣмъ recěmŭ
Present Active Participle		Present Passive Participle	Past Active Participle	Past Passive Participle
река reka		рекомъ rekomŭ	рекъ rekŭ	реченъ rečenŭ
L-Participle		Infinitive	Supine
реклъ reklŭ		речи reči	речь rečĭ

Descendants

• Old Ruthenian: речи́ (rečí)
  • Belarusian: рачы́ (račý)
  • Ukrainian: речи́ (rečý), ректи́ (rektý)
• Russian: речи́ (rečí) (dialectal), -ре́чь (-réčʹ)

References

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “речи”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 118

Russian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrʲet͡ɕɪ]

Noun

ре́чи • (réči) f inan or f inan pl

1. inflection of речь (rečʹ):
   1. genitive/dative/prepositional singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural