Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oťьtnǫti

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

See *oťutiti (“to feel, to perceive”) for etymology. Note that that verb is built off of Proto-Slavic *jut- (full grade), whereas this verb is built off of Proto-Slavic *jьt- (zero grade of the same root). If Proto-Slavic *jut- is ultimately connected with Sanskrit वत् (vat, “to get acquainted with”) (see the discussion under *otjutiti), the *j- in *jьt- must be borrowed from the full grade (per Derksen).

Verb

*oťьtnǫti

1. to wake up? to come to be, to find oneself?

Inflection

• 1sg. *oťьtnǫ

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• *oťutiti (“to feel, to perceive”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ѡчхнꙋтисѧ (očxnutisę)
    • Belarusian: ачну́цца (ačnúcca)
    • Russian: очну́ться (očnútʹsja) (literary)
    • Ukrainian: очну́тися (očnútysja) (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: octnúti
    • Czech: octnout, (rarely) ocitnout
  • Polish: ocknąć, (archaic) ocnąć
  • Slovak: ocitnúť

Further reading

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “очути́ться”, 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 613
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “очну́ться”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2011), “*otjьtnǫti / *otjъtnǫti (sę) или *obtjьtnǫti / *obtjъtnǫti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 37 (*otъgryzati (sę) – *otъpasti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 45