Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pamętь

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

From Pre-Slavic *pṓˀ-mintis, equivalent to *pa- +‎ Proto-Balto-Slavic *mintís. Grammatically a verbal noun of an early *pamęti +‎ *-tь, parallel to *pomьniti (“to remember”).

Noun

*pàmę̄tь f

1. memory

Inflection

Declension of *pàmę̄tь (i-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pàmę̄tь	*pàmę̄ti	*pàmę̄ti
genitive	*pàmę̄tī	*pàmę̄tьju, *pàmę̄ťu*	*pàmę̄tьjь, *pàmę̄tī*
dative	*pàmę̄ti	*pàmę̄tьma	*pàmę̄tьmъ
accusative	*pàmę̄tь	*pàmę̄ti	*pàmę̄ti
instrumental	*pàmę̄tьjǫ, *pàmę̄ťǭ*	*pàmę̄tьma	*pàmę̄tьmī
locative	*pàmę̄tī	*pàmę̄tьju, *pàmę̄ťu*	*pàmę̄tьxъ
vocative	*pamęti	*pàmę̄ti	*pàmę̄ti

^* 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).

Derived terms

• *pamętati

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: памѧть (pamętĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: па́мѧть (pámjatʹ), па́мєть (pámjetʹ)
      • Belarusian: па́мяць (pámjacʹ)
      • Ukrainian: па́м'ять (pámʺjatʹ)
    • Russian: па́мять (pámjatʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: памѧть (pamętĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⰰⰿⱔⱅⱐ (pamętĭ)

  • Bulgarian: па́мет (pámet)
  • Macedonian: па́мет (pámet)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: па̏ме̄т

    Latin script: pȁmēt

  • Slovene: pámet (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pamět
    • Czech: paměť
  • Old Polish: pamięć
    • Polish: pamięć
    • Silesian: pamiyńć
  • Old Slovak: pamäť
    • Slovak: pamäť
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: pamiãc
    • Slovincian: pamjãc