Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ťutati

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

Probably back-formed from *oťutiti (“to perceive”) < *ot- +‎ *jutiti via rebracketing of the prefix (*o- reanalyzed as the suffix *o(b)- and dropped; coda *-t- perceived as a part of the root).

Per Mladenov, there may have been (some) influence from Ottoman Turkish كوذماك (güdmek, “to graze”).

Verb

*ťutati impf (South Slavic)

1. to be attentive, quiet

Conjugation

Conjugation of *ťutati, *ťuta, *ťutitь (impf., intr., -a/i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*ťutanьje	*ťutati	*ťutatъ	*ťutalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	—	—
Active	*ťutavъ	*ťutę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*ťutaxъ	*ťuta	*ťuta	*ťuťǫ	*ťutiši	*ťutitь
Dual	*ťutaxově	*ťutasta	*ťutaste	*ťutivě	*ťutita	*ťutite
Plural	*ťutaxomъ	*ťutaste	*ťutašę	*ťutimъ	*ťutite	*ťutętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*ťutaaxъ	*ťutaaše	*ťutaaše	—	*ťuti	*ťuti
Dual	*ťutaaxově	*ťutaašeta	*ťutaašete	*ťutivě	*ťutita	—
Plural	*ťutaaxomъ	*ťutaašete	*ťutaaxǫ	*ťutimъ	*ťutite	—

Alternative forms

• *ťutěti (ě/i-conjugation)
• *ťutiti (i-conjugation)

Related terms

• *oťutiti, *oťuťati (“to feel”)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • >? Bulgarian: кю́тя (kjútja), кю́там (kjútam, “to be alert”) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: ќути (ḱuti)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ћу́тати, ћу́тјети

    Latin script: ćútati, ćútjeti

Further reading

• Skok, Petar (1971) “ćútjeti”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 367
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “čutiti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “V obravnavano sloven. (...) verjetno sovpadel tudi pslovan. glagol *ot'uti̋ti (< *ot- + *juti̋ti)”