Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/paliti

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

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• Per Rix (LIV), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-eye-, a causative/iterative from the root *pel-.
• Per Derksen from the root *pelh₁-, with a laryngeal due to the evidence of a Balto-Slavic acute.

Cognate with *pòlmy (“flame”), *pȅpelъ, *pȍpelъ (“ashes”), Lithuanian pelenaĩ (“ashes”), plė́nis (“speck, fine ashes”), Latvian plẽne (“white ashes on coals”), Old Prussian pelanne (“ashes”).

Verb

*pālìti

1. to burn, to singe

Inflection

Conjugation of *paliti, *pali, *palitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*paľenьje	*paliti	*palitъ	*palilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*paľenъ	*palimъ
Active	*paľь	*palę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*palixъ	*pali	*pali	*paľǫ	*pališi	*palitь
Dual	*palixově	*palista	*paliste	*palivě	*palita	*palite
Plural	*palixomъ	*paliste	*pališę	*palimъ	*palite	*palętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*paľaaxъ	*paľaaše	*paľaaše	—	*pali	*pali
Dual	*paľaaxově	*paľaašeta	*paľaašete	*palivě	*palita	—
Plural	*paľaaxomъ	*paľaašete	*paľaaxǫ	*palimъ	*palite	—

Notes:
• (*)*palivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Related terms

• *polěti (“to burn”)
• *pȅpelъ, *pȍpelъ (“ashes”)

• *pòlmy (“flame”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: палити (paliti) (accent paradigm b)
    • Belarusian: палі́ць (palícʹ)
    • Russian: пали́ть (palítʹ), 1sg. палю́ (paljú), 3sg. пали́т (palít)
    • Ukrainian: пали́ти (palýty)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: палити (paliti), 1sg. палѭ (paljǫ)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: па́ля (pálja)
  • Macedonian: пали (pali)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: па́лити, 1sg. па̑лӣм

    Latin: páliti, 1sg. pȃlīm

    • Chakavian : på̄lȉti, 2sg. på̃līš
  • Slovene: páliti (tonal orthography), 1sg. pálim (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pálit
  • Polish: palić
  • Slovak: páliť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: palić
    • Lower Sorbian: paliś

References

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пали́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, pages 617–618
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pālìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 390
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пали́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress