Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gatь

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *gatъ

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gā́ˀtei (“to go, to proceed”), ultimately, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go”).

Noun

*gatь f

1. causeway?

Declension

Declension of *gatь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gatь	*gati	*gati
genitive	*gati	*gatьju, *gaťu*	*gatьjь, *gati*
dative	*gati	*gatьma	*gatьmъ
accusative	*gatь	*gati	*gati
instrumental	*gatьjǫ, *gaťǫ*	*gatьma	*gatьmi
locative	*gati	*gatьju, *gaťu*	*gatьxъ
vocative	*gati	*gati	*gati

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: гать (gatĭ)
    • Belarusian: гаць (hacʹ)
    • Russian: гать (gatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: гать (hatʹ), гат (hat)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: га̏т m

    Latin script: gȁt m

  • Slovene: gȃt m (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hať
  • Polish: gać (obsolete)
  • Slovak: hať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: gat
    • Upper Sorbian: hat

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: gát

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gatь/*gatъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 108
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress