Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-ťi

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

When the stem ended in a velar the cluster *-kt- became palatalized before front vowels during the Common Slavic period which yielded this variant ending: *-kti > *-ḱťi > *-ćťi (?) > *-ťi.

Suffix

*-ťi

1. Form of *-ti, used with root-stem verbs ending in *k or *g.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: -чи (-či)
    • Belarusian: -чы (-čy)
    • Russian: -чь (-čʹ)
    • Ukrainian: -чи (-čy)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: -щи (-šti)

    Glagolitic: -ⱋⰻ (-šti)

  • Bulgarian: — (infinitive has been lost)
  • Macedonian: — (infinitive has been lost)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: -ћи

    Latin script: -ći

  • Slovene: -či
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: -ci
    • Czech: -ci
  • Old Polish: -c
    • Polish: -c
  • Slovak: -ť

References

• Ranko Matasović (2008), Poredbenopovijesna gramatika hrvatskog jezika, Matica hrvatska: Zagreb, page 300f