Reconstruction talk:Proto-Slavic/xotěti

Etymology

Shall we link it to chwytać with: Contamination of now dialectal chytać, from *xytati, and now obsolete chwatać, from *xvatati? Zezen (talk) 08:17, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Conjugation (irregular ě/i or normal ě/j)

@Useigor: Hi, if I'm not mistaken, you've sorted out the conjugation of *xъtěti (currently given as irregular ě/i-conjugation with only 2p. sg. displaying i-conjugation). Are you sure this 2p. sg. хошти, on which the irregularity is based, is not the imperative ~ optative form (as Kortlandt suggests)? As far as I can see, most descendants display regular ě/j-conjugation. The only exception is modern Russian with 1p. хочу, 2p. хочеш, 3p. хочет for singular and 1p. хотим, 2p. хотите, 3p. хотят for plural. That's however not the irregularity that is given by the the conjugation template. I see that Kortlandt (p. 54) also reconstructs ě/j-forms, so perhaps we should change the conjugation to normal ě/j? Or at least correct the irregular ě/i-paradigm to coalesce with Russian? Безименен (talk) 18:42, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

• @ZomBear: Can you verify if Old East Slavic displays ě/j-conjugation throughout all numbers or has the same irregularity as modern Russian (j-conjugation for sg. and i-conjugation for pl.)?