Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/desiti

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 *deśitei, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“take, perceive”).

Verb

*desiti pf

1. find, encounter

Conjugation

Conjugation of *desiti, *desi, *desitь (perf., -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*dešenьje	*desiti	*desitъ	*desilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*dešenъ	—
Active	*dešь	—

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*desixъ	*desi	*desi	*dešǫ	*desiši	*desitь
Dual	*desixově	*desista	*desiste	*desivě	*desita	*desite
Plural	*desixomъ	*desiste	*desišę	*desimъ	*desite	*desętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	—	—	—	—	*desi	*desi
Dual	—	—	—	*desivě	*desita	—
Plural	—	—	—	*desimъ	*desite	—

Notes:
• (*)*desivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
• In perfective verbs, present expresses future

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: десити (desiti), дѣсити (děsiti, “find, encounter”), деситисꙗ (desitisja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: десити (desiti, “find, encounter”)

    Glagolitic script: ⰴⰵⱄⰹⱅⰹ (desiti, “find, encounter”)

    • Russian Church Slavonic: десити (desiti), дѣсити (děsiti, “find, encounter”)
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: Деси-слава (Desi-slava) (proper name)
  • Bulgarian: де́сим се (désim se) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: дѐсити, де̏си̑м, де̏сити, десити се (“happen, occur”); де̏шити, де̏сит (dialectal)

    Latin script: dèsiti, dȅsȋm, dȅsiti, desiti se (“happen, occur”); dȅšiti, dȅsit (dialectal)

• West Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old Czech: poděsiti (“catch up with, get hold of”)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*desiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 217