Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gasnǫti

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the root of *gasìti + *-nǫti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷes-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian gesýti (to extinguish), 1sg. gesaũ, gèsti (to be extinguished, to go out), 1sg. gestù, Latvian dzēst (to extinguish), dzist (to be extinguished, to go out). Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit जसते (jásate, to be extinguished), जासयति (jāsáyati, to extinguish, to exhaust), Ancient Greek σβέννῡμι (sbénnūmi, to extinguish).

Verb[edit]

*gàsnǫti impf[1][2]

  1. to be extinguished, to go out

Inflection[edit]

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Descendants[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “гаси́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 182
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гаси́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gasnǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 104

References[edit]

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gàsnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 161:v. (a) ‘be extinguished, go out’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “gasnǫti: gasnǫ gasnetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a (SA 211, 259; PR 133)