Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krotiti

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

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Verb

*krotiti

1. to tame

Inflection

Conjugation of *krotiti, *kroti, *krotitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*kroťenьje	*krotiti	*krotitъ	*krotilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*kroťenъ	*krotimъ
Active	*kroťь	*krotę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*krotixъ	*kroti	*kroti	*kroťǫ	*krotiši	*krotitь
Dual	*krotixově	*krotista	*krotiste	*krotivě	*krotita	*krotite
Plural	*krotixomъ	*krotiste	*krotišę	*krotimъ	*krotite	*krotętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*kroťaaxъ	*kroťaaše	*kroťaaše	—	*kroti	*kroti
Dual	*kroťaaxově	*kroťaašeta	*kroťaašete	*krotivě	*krotita	—
Plural	*kroťaaxomъ	*kroťaašete	*kroťaaxǫ	*krotimъ	*krotite	—

Notes:
• (*)*krotivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Related terms

• *krotъkъ (“tame, meek”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: кроти́ть (krotítʹ) (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Russian: укроти́ть (ukrotítʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: кротити (krotiti)

    Glagolitic script: ⰽⱃⱁⱅⰻⱅⰻ (krotiti)

  • Bulgarian: кротя́ (krotjá)
  • Macedonian: скротува (skrotuva)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кро̀тити

    Latin script: kròtiti

  • Slovene: krotiti
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: krotiti
    • Czech: krotit
  • Old Polish: krócić
    • ⇒ Polish: ukrócić
  • Slovak: krotiť

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*krotìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 250
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кроти́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress