Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/postignǫti

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

• *postiťi?

Etymology

From *po- +‎ *stignǫti.

Verb

*postignǫti pf (imperfective *postigati)

1. to achieve, to accomplish
2. to comprehend

Inflection

Conjugation of *postignǫti, *postiže, *postignetь (perf., -C/n-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*postiženьje	*postignǫti	*postignǫtъ	*postiglъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*postiženъ	—
Active	*postigъ	—

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*postig(ox)ъ	*postiže	*postiže	*postignǫ	*postigneši	*postignetь
Dual	*postig(ox)ově	*postig(e/os)ta	*postig(e/os)te	*postignevě	*postigneta	*postignete
Plural	*postig(ox)omъ	*postig(e/os)te	*postigǫ, *postigošę	*postignemъ	*postignete	*postignǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	—	—	—	—	*postigni	*postigni
Dual	—	—	—	*postigněvě	*postigněta	—
Plural	—	—	—	*postigněmъ	*postigněte	—

Notes:
• Aorist *postigeste ⇒ *postižeste, ...
• In perfective verbs, present expresses future

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: пости́гнуть (postígnutʹ), пости́чь (postíčʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: постигнѫти (postignǫti)
  • Bulgarian: постигна (postigna)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: постигнути, по̀стићи

    Latin script: pòstignuti, pòstići

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: postihnout

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “-стигать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress