Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oťutiti

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 forms

*otъjutiti
*oťutiti
*obťutiti (assimilated, reanalyzed)
*občutiti (assimilated, reanalyzed)

Etymology

From *ot- + Proto-Balto-Slavic *jaut-. Cognate with Lithuanian jaũsti (“to feel, to sense”) (1sg. jaučiù, 3sg. jaũčia, 3sg. past jaũtė), jùsti (“to feel”) (1sg. juntù, 3sg. juñta, 3sg. past jùto), jutė́ti (“to feel”) (1sg. jutù), Latvian jàust (“to feel, to notice, to understand, to heed”), just (“to feel, to notice”). Per Derksen, possibly connected with Sanskrit वत् (vat, “to get acquainted with”), but only under the assumption that the zero-grade Proto-Indo-European *ut- of the root *wet- was formed into a new full grade *ewt- in the Indo-European dialects underlying Balto-Slavic.

Forms in daughter languages that lack initial o- are due to reanalysis of assimilated *oťutiti as *o-ťutiti with prefix *o-, followed by extraction of the reanalyzed root verb.

Verb

*oťutìti^[1]^[2]

to feel, to perceive

Inflection

Conjugation of *oťutiti, *oťuti, *oťutitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*oťuťenьje	*oťutiti	*oťutitъ	*oťutilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*oťuťenъ	*oťutimъ
Active	*oťuťь	*oťutę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*oťutixъ	*oťuti	*oťuti	*oťuťǫ	*oťutiši	*oťutitь
Dual	*oťutixově	*oťutista	*oťutiste	*oťutivě	*oťutita	*oťutite
Plural	*oťutixomъ	*oťutiste	*oťutišę	*oťutimъ	*oťutite	*oťutętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*oťuťaaxъ	*oťuťaaše	*oťuťaaše	—	*oťuti	*oťuti
Dual	*oťuťaaxově	*oťuťaašeta	*oťuťaašete	*oťutivě	*oťutita	—
Plural	*oťuťaaxomъ	*oťuťaašete	*oťuťaaxǫ	*oťutimъ	*oťutite	—

(*)*oťutivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Related terms

*oťьtnǫti (“to awake? to find oneself?”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: очꙋтити (očutiti), очꙋтитисꙗ (očutitisja)
  - Belarusian: ачуці́цца (ačucícca)
  - Russian: очути́ться (očutítʹsja)
  - Ukrainian: очути́тися (očutýtysja), очу́титися (očútytysja)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: ощоутити (oštutiti)
  
  Glagolitic: [Term?]
  - → Russian: ощути́ть (oščutítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ћу́тјети (archaic, literary)
  
  Latin: ćútjeti (archaic, literary)
- Slovene: čutīti, čútiti (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: cútiti
  - Czech: cítit
- Old Polish: ocucić
  - Polish: ocucić, cucić
- Slovak: cítiť
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: wocućić, cućić
  - Lower Sorbian: wóćuśiś

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*otjutiti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 381: “v. ‘feel, perceive’”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “čutīti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. [...] *čuti̋ti”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*otjutiti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 381: “v. ‘feel, perceive’”

[2] Snoj, Marko (2016) “čutīti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. [...] *čuti̋ti”

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