Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gnesti

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gnestei, from Proto-Indo-European *gnét-ti, from *gnet-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *knudaną.

Verb

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*gnestì impf[1][2]

  1. to press
  2. to knead

Inflection

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гнету́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “гнести́”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 195
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gnesti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 165

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gnestì”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 168:v. (c) ‘knead, press’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “gnesti: gnetǫ gnetetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c trykke (PR 139)