Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kortiti

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 *kortъ +‎ *-iti.

Verb

*kortiti

1. to shorten

Inflection

Conjugation of *kortiti, *korti, *kortitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-iti
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*korťenьje	*kortiti	*kortitъ	*kortilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*korťenъ	*kortimъ
Active	*korťь	*kortę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*kortixъ	*korti	*korti	*korťǫ	*kortiši	*kortitь
Dual	*kortixově	*kortista	*kortiste	*kortivě	*kortita	*kortite
Plural	*kortixomъ	*kortiste	*kortišę	*kortimъ	*kortite	*kortętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*korťaaxъ	*korťaaše	*korťaaše	—	*korti	*korti
Dual	*korťaaxově	*korťaašeta	*korťaašete	*kortivě	*kortita	—
Plural	*korťaaxomъ	*korťaašete	*korťaaxǫ	*kortimъ	*kortite	—

Notes:
• (*)*kortivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: караціць (karacicʹ)
    • ⇒ Belarusian: скараці́ць (skaracícʹ)
  • ⇒ Russian: сократи́ть (sokratítʹ)
  • Ukrainian: короти́ти (korotýty)
    • ⇒ Ukrainian: скороти́ти (skorotýty)
• South Slavic
  • Bulgarian: кратя (kratja) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: крати (krati)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кра́тити

    Latin script: krátiti

  • Slovene: krátiti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic
  • Czech: krátit
  • Polish: krócić (obsolete)
  • Slovak: krátiť

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kortiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 98