Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pytati

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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-Indo-European *pew-. Cognate with Latin putāre (to cut off branches, estimate, consider, think), Tocharian A putk, as well as (without *-t-) Lithuanian piáuti, Latin paviō, Ancient Greek παίω (paíō), Albanian fus (insert, put (something) in).

Verb

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*pȳtàti[1]

  1. to ask, examine

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пытать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пытать”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 88

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pȳtàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 425:v. (b) ‘ask, examine’