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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gaťę

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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

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Etymology

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Most conveniently explained from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (to go, to walk around) which was displaced by Proto-Slavic *jьti but is retained in dialectal Lithuanian góti apart from some old derivations. Stankiewicz, before this was understood, proposed *gʰeh₁bʰ- (to grab) found as Proto-Slavic *gabati (to grab) meaning in Lithuanian góbti also “to wrap, to cover”, however from the first root there is *gatь (a causeway through swamps), and suffixed +‎ *-ja one had therefore (one leg of a pair or trinity of) rain trousers for walking through swamps, which is particularly likely since one knows that the Slavs before their expansion dwelt in the Polish swamps.

Noun

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*gaťę f pl

  1. underwear

Inflection

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