Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mъknǫti

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 *múktei (“to slip away, to flee, escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *mu-n-ék-ti ~ *mu-n-k-éti, from *(s)mewk-. Compare Latvian mukt (“knock off, slip”), Lithuanian mùkti, munkù, mukaũ (“be released, escape”).

Verb

*mъknǫ̀ti

1. to move

Conjugation

Conjugation of *mъknǫti, *mъče, *mъknetь (?, -C/n-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm b)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*mъčenьje	*mъknǫti	*mъknǫtъ	*mъklъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*mъčenъ	*mъknomъ
Active	*mъkъ	*mъkny

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*mъk(ox)ъ	*mъče	*mъče	*mъknǫ	*mъkneši	*mъknetь
Dual	*mъk(ox)ově	*mъk(e/os)ta	*mъk(e/os)te	*mъknevě	*mъkneta	*mъknete
Plural	*mъk(ox)omъ	*mъk(e/os)te	*mъkǫ, *mъkošę	*mъknemъ	*mъknete	*mъknǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*mъkněaxъ	*mъkněaše	*mъkněaše	—	*mъkni	*mъkni
Dual	*mъkněaxově	*mъkněašeta	*mъkněašete	*mъkněvě	*mъkněta	—
Plural	*mъkněaxomъ	*mъkněašete	*mъkněaxǫ	*mъkněmъ	*mъkněte	—

Notes:
• Aorist *mъkeste ⇒ *mъčeste, ...

Related terms

• *sъmykati
• *mъčati

Derived terms

• *mъkъ (“quick movement”)
• *zamъknǫti (“to close, shut”)
  • *zamъkъ (“lock”)
• *primъknǫti
  • *primъka (“loop, knot, snare”)
• *promъknǫti
  • *promъka (“thread”)
• *omъča

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *мъкнѫти (*mŭknǫti)
    • Belarusian: мкнуць (mknucʹ)
    • Russian: -мкну́ть (-mknútʹ)
    • Ukrainian: -мкну́ти (-mknúty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: мъкнѫти (mŭknǫti)

    Glagolitic script: ⰿⱏⰽⱀⱘⱅⰻ (mŭknǫti)

  • Bulgarian: мъ́кна (mǎ́kna)
  • Macedonian: мкне (mkne) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ма̀кнути

    Latin script: màknuti

  • Slovene: maknīti, mákniti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: mknúti
    • Czech: mknout
  • Old Polish: mknąć
    • Polish: mknąć
  • Slovak: mknúť
  • Slovincian: mknõc

From older *mъťi

• Serbo-Croatian: ма̏ћи

Further reading

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “замъкнути”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 929
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “промъкнутисѧ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ‎^[3] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1545
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mъknǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 219