Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/gā́ˀtei

This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷéh₂-t ~ *gʷh₂-ént, from *gʷeh₂- (“to step, to tread”).

Verb

*gā́ˀtei

to go, to proceed

Usage notes

Originally a root-aorist, the verb either has become suppletive to synonymous *eitei (filling up the role of the aorist) or acquired je-present counterpart. Slavic languages have preserved deverbial nouns and a secondary causative derived from the verb-stem, but the base verb itself was lost.

Inflection

Probably fixed accent with je-present (in some dialects).

Related terms

*gā́ˀźtei (“to wade, to trample, to overturn”)

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latvian: gãju (preterite of iet)
- Lithuanian: góti (“to rush, hurry”) (dialectal)
Proto-Slavic: *gati
- ⇒ *gatь (“causeway”) (relic ti-stem), *gatъ m/*gata f (“some kind of obstruction (heap, pond, weir)”) (relic to-stem)
  - ⇒ *gatiti (“to tramp, to tackle hindrance”)

Derksen, Rick (2015) “goti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 184
Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gatъ, *gatь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 162
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gatiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 105
“goti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012