Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gasnǫti

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 the root of *gasìti + *-nǫti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷes-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian gesýti (“to extinguish”), 1sg. gesaũ, gèsti (“to be extinguished, to go out”), 1sg. gestù, Latvian dzēst (“to extinguish”), dzist (“to be extinguished, to go out”). Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit जसते (jásate, “to be extinguished”), जासयति (jāsáyati, “to extinguish, to exhaust”), Ancient Greek σβέννῡμι (sbénnūmi, “to extinguish”).

Verb

*gàsnǫti impf

1. to be extinguished, to go out

Inflection

Conjugation of *gasnǫti, *gase, *gasnetь (?, -C/n-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*gasenьje	*gasnǫti	*gasnǫtъ	*gaslъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*gasenъ	*gasnomъ
Active	*gasъ	*gasny

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*gas(ox)ъ	*gase	*gase	*gasnǫ	*gasneši	*gasnetь
Dual	*gas(ox)ově	*gas(e/os)ta	*gas(e/os)te	*gasnevě	*gasneta	*gasnete
Plural	*gas(ox)omъ	*gas(e/os)te	*gasǫ, *gasošę	*gasnemъ	*gasnete	*gasnǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*gasněaxъ	*gasněaše	*gasněaše	—	*gasni	*gasni
Dual	*gasněaxově	*gasněašeta	*gasněašete	*gasněvě	*gasněta	—
Plural	*gasněaxomъ	*gasněašete	*gasněaxǫ	*gasněmъ	*gasněte	—

Related terms

• *gasìti (“to extinguish”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: гаснѫти (gasnǫti)
    • Belarusian: га́снуць (hásnucʹ)
    • Russian: га́снуть (gásnutʹ)
    • Ukrainian: га́снути (hásnuty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: га́сна (gásna)
  • Macedonian: гасне (gasne)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: га̏снути

    Latin script: gȁsnuti

  • Slovene: gásniti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: gasnąc
  • Old Czech: hasnúti
    • Czech: hasnout
  • Polish: gasnąć
  • Slovak: hasnúť
  • Slovincian: gasnõć
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hasnyć
    • Lower Sorbian: gasnuś

Further reading

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “гаси́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 182
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гаси́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gasnǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 104