Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/teťi

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 earlier *tekti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tek-, from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to run, flow”).

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian tekė́ti (“to flow, run”), 3sg. tẽka and Latvian tecêt (“to flow, run”), 1sg. teku.

Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit तक्ति (tákti, “to rush”), Old Irish tachid (“to flee”).

Verb

*teťi

1. to flow, run

Conjugation

Conjugation of *teťi, *teče, *tečetь (?, -C-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*tečenьje	*teťi	*teťь	*teklъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*tečenъ	*tekomъ
Active	*tekъ	*teky

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*těxъ	*teče	*teče	*tekǫ	*tečeši	*tečetь
Dual	*těxově	*těsta	*těste	*tečevě	*tečeta	*tečete
Plural	*těxomъ	*těste	*těšę	*tečemъ	*tečete	*tekǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*tečaaxъ	*tečaaše	*tečaaše	—	*tьci	*tьci
Dual	*tečaaxově	*tečaašeta	*tečaašete	*tьcěvě	*tьcěta	—
Plural	*tečaaxomъ	*tečaašete	*tečaaxǫ	*tьcěmъ	*tьcěte	—

Derived terms

• *tekъ (“course”)
• *točiti (“to cause to flow, run”)
• *tokъ (“current, course, stream”)
• *o(b)teťi (“to outflow; to sediment, to bulk, to swell”)
  • *o(b)tokъ
  • *o(b)tekъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: течи (teči)
    • Belarusian: цячы́ (cjačý)
    • Russian: те́чь (téčʹ)
    • Ukrainian: текти́ (tektý)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: тещи (tešti)

    Glagolitic script: ⱅⰵⱋⰻ (tešti)

  • Bulgarian: тека́ (teká)
  • Macedonian: тече (teče)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: те̏ћи

    Latin script: tȅći

  • Slovene: téči (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: téci
    • Czech: téci, téct
  • Old Polish: ciec
    • Polish: ciec
  • Slovak: tiecť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: ćec
    • Lower Sorbian: śac

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “tekėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 462
• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 489
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “теку”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “течи”, 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 955