Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sy

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *sants, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sónts.

Baltic cognate is Lithuanian sañt (transgr.).

Indo-European cognates are Sanskrit सत् (sat), सत्य (satya), Ancient Greek ὤν (ṓn), Latin praesēns, absēns, sōns, sonticus, Proto-Germanic *sanþaz, *sunjaz.

According to Vasmer, Ukrainian су́тий (sútyj) may be derived from consonant stem (*sǫtь). Compare *mogǫt-, *slovǫtь, *žьmǫtь.

Verb

*sy

1. present active participle of *byti

Inflection

This participle needs an inflection-table template.

• Nominative: *sy, *sǫťi, *sy

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: сꙑ (sy)
    • → Belarusian: су́шчы (súščy)
    • → Russian: су́щий (súščij)
    • → Ukrainian: су́щий (súščyj)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: су̏штӣ

      Latin script: sȕštī

  • Bulgarian: същ (sǎšt)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сући

    Latin script: sući

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jsa
    • Czech: jsa, jsouc, jsouce, jsoucí
  • Old Polish: sę, sąc, sący

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “суть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сущий”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “су́щий”, in Етимологічний словник української мови (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 489
• А. И. Толкачев (1978) “К истории словообразования форм со значением субъективной оценки (квалитативов) личных собственных имен греческого происхождения в древнерусском языке XI–XV вв. III”, in Этимология 1976, Moscow, page 116: “Суффикс -ут-”