Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pǫtь

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 *pántis/*pintis, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from *pent-. Cognate with Old Prussian pintis (“way, road”).

Noun

*pǫ̃tь m

1. way, path

Declension

Declension of *pǫ̃tь (i-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pǫ̃tь	*pǭtì	*pǫ̃tьjē, *pǫ̃ťē*
genitive	*pǫ̃ti	*pǫ̃tьju, *pǫťu*	*pǭtь̀jь, *pǫ̃ti*
dative	*pǭtì	*pǫ̃tьma	*pǭtь̀mъ
accusative	*pǫ̃tь	*pǭtì	*pǭtì
instrumental	*pǭtь̀mь	*pǫ̃tьma	*pǫ̃tьmī
locative	*pǫ̃ti	*pǫ̃tьju, *pǫťu*	*pǭtь̀xъ
vocative	*pǫti	*pǭtì	*pǫ̃tьjē, *pǫ̃ťē*

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms

• *pǫtьnikъ (“traveler, passenger”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: путь (putĭ)
    • Belarusian: пуць (pucʹ)
    • Russian: путь (putʹ)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: путь (putʹ)
    • Ukrainian: путь (putʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: пѫть (pǫtĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⱘⱅⱐ (pǫtĭ)

  • Bulgarian: път (pǎt), пънт (pǎnt) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: пат (pat)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пу̑т

    Latin script: pȗt

  • Slovene: pọ̑t (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pút
    • Czech: pouť
      • Moravian : púť
  • Polabian: pǫt
  • Polish: pąć
  • Silesian: pōńć
  • Slovak: púť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: puć
    • Lower Sorbian: puś

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “путь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “путь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 85