Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sěděti

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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *sed- by Winter's law, or directly from the lengthened Narten root *sḗd-.

Verb

*sědě̀ti impf

1. to sit, to be sitting

Conjugation

Conjugation of *sěděti, *sědě, *sěditь (impf., intr., -ě/i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm c)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*sěděnьje	*sěděti	*sědětъ	*sědělъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	—	—
Active	*sěděvъ	*sědę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*sěděxъ	*sědě	*sědě	*sěďǫ	*sědiši	*sěditь
Dual	*sěděxově	*sěděsta	*sěděste	*sědivě	*sědita	*sědite
Plural	*sěděxomъ	*sěděste	*sěděšę	*sědimъ	*sědite	*sědętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*sěděaxъ	*sěděaše	*sěděaše	—	*sědi	*sědi
Dual	*sěděaxově	*sěděašeta	*sěděašete	*sědivě	*sědita	—
Plural	*sěděaxomъ	*sěděašete	*sěděaxǫ	*sědimъ	*sědite	—

See also

• *saditi (“to set, plant”)
• *sěsti (“to sit down”)
• *sědlo (“seat”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: сядзе́ць (sjadzjécʹ)
  • Russian: сиде́ть (sidétʹ)
  • Ukrainian: сиді́ти (sydíty)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: сѣдѣти (sěděti)
  • Bulgarian: седя́ (sedjá)
  • Macedonian: се́ди (sédi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сѐдети, сјѐдјети/сјѐдити

    Latin: sèdeti, sjèdjeti/sjèditi

  • Slovene: sedẹ́ti (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: sedět
  • Polish: siedzieć
  • Slovak: sedieť
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: sejźeś
    • Upper Sorbian: sedźeć