Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žiti
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gīˀwetei, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti.
Baltic cognates include Lithuanian gýti (“to heal; to recover”).
Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit जीवति (jī́vati), Latin vīvō (“to live”) (infinitive vīvere).
Verb
*žìti[1]
- to live
Inflection
Conjugation of *žiti, *žive, *živetь (?, -C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm c)
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
---|---|---|---|
*žitьje | *žiti | *žitъ | *žilъ |
Participles | ||
---|---|---|
Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *žitъ | *živomъ |
Active | *živъ | *živy |
Aorist | Present | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *živ(ox)ъ | *žive | *žive | *živǫ | *živeši | *živetь |
Dual | *živ(ox)ově | *živ(e/os)ta | *živ(e/os)te | *živevě | *živeta | *živete |
Plural | *živ(ox)omъ | *živ(e/os)te | *živǫ, *živošę | *živemъ | *živete | *živǫtь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *živěaxъ | *živěaše | *živěaše | — | *živi | *živi |
Dual | *živěaxově | *živěašeta | *živěašete | *živěvě | *živěta | — |
Plural | *živěaxomъ | *živěašete | *živěaxǫ | *živěmъ | *živěte | — |
Related terms
- *gojiti (“to treat, to heal”)
- *gojь
- *živěti
- *žito (“grain, corn”)
- *živica
- *životъ (“life”)
- *živъ (“alive”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*žìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 562: “v. (c) ‘live’”
Categories:
- Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic lemmas
- Proto-Slavic verbs
- sla-conj with extra parameters/n
- Proto-Slavic verbs ending in -C-
- Proto-Slavic verbs with accent paradigm c