Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kytiti

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

*kỳta (“bunch”) +‎ *-iti

Verb

*kỳtiti impf

1. to bundle, to stack

   → to form a bouquet

   → to decorate, to adorn

Conjugation

Conjugation of *kytiti, *kyti, *kytitь (impf., -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*kyťenьje	*kytiti	*kytitъ	*kytilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*kyťenъ	*kytimъ
Active	*kyťь	*kytę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*kytixъ	*kyti	*kyti	*kyťǫ	*kytiši	*kytitь
Dual	*kytixově	*kytista	*kytiste	*kytivě	*kytita	*kytite
Plural	*kytixomъ	*kytiste	*kytišę	*kytimъ	*kytite	*kytętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*kyťaaxъ	*kyťaaše	*kyťaaše	—	*kyti	*kyti
Dual	*kyťaaxově	*kyťaašeta	*kyťaašete	*kytivě	*kytita	—
Plural	*kyťaaxomъ	*kyťaašete	*kyťaaxǫ	*kytimъ	*kytite	—

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

Derived terms

• *kytьnъ (“pretty, adorned”)
• *kytьje (“sheaf”)
• *kytežь (“stacking, decoration”)

Related terms

• *kyčiti (“to hang, to decorate”)
• *kytъ (“sheaf, decoration”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: кити́ти (kytýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: *кꙑтити (*kytiti)

    ⇒ Romanian: chiti (“to decorate”)

  • Bulgarian: ки́тя (kítja)
  • Macedonian: кити (kiti)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ки̏тити

    Latin script: kȉtiti

  • Slovene: kítiti

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kytiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 281
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “китя”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 399
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “kítiti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si