Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-iťь

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

Balto-Slavic innovation. Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ītjas. Cognates include Lithuanian -ytis, Latvian -ītis.

Suffix

*-iťь m

1. Denominal, forming masculine attributables from action or agent nouns.

   ‎*kъrma (“fodder”) / ‎*kъrmľa (“breast milk”) + ‎*-iťь → ‎*kъrmiťь (“nursling”)

   ‎*batę (“elder brother”) / ‎*baťa (“father”) + ‎*-iťь → ‎*baťiťь (“son who resembles his father”)

2. Denominal, forming masculine diminutives from masculine nouns.

   ‎*kozьlъ (“billy goat”) + ‎*-iťь → ‎*kozьliťь (“kid goat”)

   ‎*otrokъ (“boy”) + ‎*-iťь → ‎*otročiťь (“child”)

   ‎*bogъ (“god”) + ‎*-iťь → ‎*božiťь (“juvenile god”)

   ‎*pъta (“fowl”) + ‎*-iťь → ‎*pъtiťь (“birdie”)

3. Denominal, forming patronyms and metronyms.

   ‎Slovene Janež + ‎*-iťь → ‎Slovene Janežič

4. Denominal, forming demonyms.

   ‎Russian Москва (Moskva) + ‎*-iťь → ‎Russian москвич (moskvič)

   ‎Slovene Podgora + ‎*-iťь → ‎Slovene Podgorčič

   ‎*dręgy / ‎*dręgъve (“swamp”) + ‎*-iťь → ‎Russian Дреговичи (Dregoviči, “East Slavic tribe”)

   ‎*obъ Odrě (“around the Oder”) + ‎*-iťь → ‎*obodriťь (“Obotrites”)

5. Deadjectival, denoting a carrier of a property.

   ‎*golъ (“naked”) + ‎*-iťь → ‎*goliťь (“something naked”)

   ‎*bělъ (“white”) + ‎*-iťь → ‎*běliťь (“something white”)

6. (by extension) Denoting a carrier of a property but with a diminutive meaning through a parallel word formation from deadjectival nouns and adjectives.

   ‎*moldъ (“young”) / ‎*moldę (“youngling”) + ‎*-iťь → ‎*moldiťь (“youngling”)

Declension

Declension of *-iťь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*-iťь	*-iťa	*-iťi
genitive	*-iťa	*-iťu	*-iťь
dative	*-iťu	*-iťema	*-iťemъ
accusative	*-iťь	*-iťa	*-iťę̇
instrumental	*-iťьmь, *-iťemь*	*-iťema	*-iťi
locative	*-iťi	*-iťu	*-iťixъ
vocative	*-iťu	*-iťa	*-iťi

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

Proto-Slavic terms suffixed with *-iťь

Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/božiťь

Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bratiťь

Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kъnęžiťь

Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-oviťь

Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pъtiťь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: -ичь (-ičĭ)
    • Belarusian: -іч (-ič)
    • Russian: -ич (-ič)
    • Ukrainian: -ич (-yč), -їч (-jič), -іч (-ič)
  • Old Novgorodian: -иць (-icʹĭ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: -ⰹⱋⱐ (-ištĭ)

    Old Cyrillic script: -ищь (-ištĭ)

  • Bulgarian: -ич (-ič), -ичко (-ičko)
  • Macedonian: -иќ (-iḱ)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: -ић

    Latin script: -ić

  • Slovene: -ič
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: -ic
  • Kashubian: -ëc
  • Old Polish: -ic, -yc
    • Polish: -ic, -yc
      • → Yiddish: ־יץ (-its)
  • Slovak: -ic
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: -ic
    • Upper Sorbian: -ic

References

• Šekli, Matej (2012), “Besedotvorni pomeni samostalniških izpeljank v praslovanščini”, in Philological Studies‎^[1] (in Slovene), volume 10, number 1, Skopje, Perm, Ljubljana, Zagreb, pages 115–32