Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nejęsytь

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

Per Shapiro, possibly composed of Proto-Indo-European *ne-h₁m-seh₂-tis, equivalent to *ne- (“not”) +‎ *ęti (“to take”) +‎ *sytь (“satiation”), perhaps meaning something like “the insatiable taker”.

Noun

*nejęsytь f

1. pelican

Declension

Declension of *nejęsytь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*nejęsytь	*nejęsyti	*nejęsyti
genitive	*nejęsyti	*nejęsytьju, *nejęsyťu*	*nejęsytьjь, *nejęsyti*
dative	*nejęsyti	*nejęsytьma	*nejęsytьmъ
accusative	*nejęsytь	*nejęsyti	*nejęsyti
instrumental	*nejęsytьjǫ, *nejęsyťǫ*	*nejęsytьma	*nejęsytьmi
locative	*nejęsyti	*nejęsytьju, *nejęsyťu*	*nejęsytьxъ
vocative	*nejęsyti	*nejęsyti	*nejęsyti

^* 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: неѩсꙑть (nejęsytĭ)
    • Russian: нея́сыть (nejásytʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: неѩсꙑть (nejęsytĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱀⰵⱗⱄⱏⰹⱅⱐ (nejęsytĭ)

  • Bulgarian: не́сит (nésit)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: несит

    Latin script: nesit

  • Slovene: nesìt

References

• Shapiro, Michael (1982) “Slavonic *nejęsytь ‘pelican’: The perpetuation of a Septuagintal solecism”, in The Slavonic and East European Review, volume 60, pages 161–171
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nejęsytь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 348
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “неясы́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress