Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sušiti

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 *saušīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sows-éye-ti, a causative/iterative formation built on Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- (“to be dry”) (also reconstructed as *sh₂ews-). Equivalent to *suxъ (“dry”) +‎ *-iti.

Cognate with Lithuanian saũsinti (“to dry (transitive)”), saũsti (“to wither”), sùsti (“to scab over”) (1sg. susù), saũsas (“dry”), Latvian sust (“to dry (intransitive)”) (1sg. susu), susêt (“to wither”) (1sg. susu, susẽju), sàuss (“dry”), Old Prussian sausā (“dry”, fem. acc. sg.), Sanskrit शोषयति (śoṣáyati, “to let dry”), शुष्क (śúṣka, “dry, barren”), Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬱𐬐𐬀 (huška, “dry”), Homeric Ancient Greek αὖος (aûos, “dry”), Old English sēar (“dry”), English sere, sear.

Verb

1. (transitive) to dry

Inflection

Conjugation of *sušiti, *suši, *sušitь (impf., -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm c)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*sušenьje	*sušiti	*sušitъ	*sušilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*sušenъ	*sušimъ
Active	*sušь	*sušę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*sušixъ	*suši	*suši	*sušǫ	*sušiši	*sušitь
Dual	*sušixově	*sušista	*sušiste	*sušivě	*sušita	*sušite
Plural	*sušixomъ	*sušiste	*sušišę	*sušimъ	*sušite	*sušętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*sušaaxъ	*sušaaše	*sušaaše	—	*suši	*suši
Dual	*sušaaxově	*sušaašeta	*sušaašete	*sušivě	*sušita	—
Plural	*sušaaxomъ	*sušaašete	*sušaaxǫ	*sušimъ	*sušite	—

Notes:
• (*)*sušivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Related terms

• *sȗxъ (“dry”)

• *sъxnǫti (“to dry, to wither (intransitive)”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сꙋшити (sušiti)
    • Belarusian: сушы́ць (sušýcʹ)
    • Russian: суши́ть (sušítʹ, “to dry”), 1sg. сушу́ (sušú), 3sg. су́шит (súšit)
    • Ukrainian: суши́ти (sušýty)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: соушити (sušiti)

    Glagolitic: ⱄⱆⱎⰻⱅⰻ (sušiti)

  • Bulgarian: суша́ (sušá)
  • Macedonian: суши (suši)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: су́шити

    Latin: súšiti

    • Chakavian : sūšȉt, 3sg. sũši
  • Slovene: sušíti (tonal orthography), 1sg. suším (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: sušiti
    • Czech: sušit
  • Old Polish: suszyć
    • Polish: suszyć
  • Slovak: sušiť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: sušić
    • Lower Sorbian: sušyś

References

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “сухо́й”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 220
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*sušìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 474