Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sěta

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

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Noun

*sěta f

1. sorrow

Declension

Declension of *sěta (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sěta	*sětě	*sěty
genitive	*sěty	*sětu	*sětъ
dative	*sětě	*sětama	*sětamъ
accusative	*sětǫ	*sětě	*sěty
instrumental	*sětojǫ, *sětǫ**	*sětama	*sětami
locative	*sětě	*sětu	*sětasъ, *sětaxъ*
vocative	*sěto	*sětě	*sěty

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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: сѣта (sěta)
    • ⇒ Old Ruthenian: сѣ́товати (sě́tovati)
    • ⇒ Russian: се́товать (sétovatʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: сѣтовати (sětovati)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⱑⱅⱁⰲⰰⱅⰺ (sětovati)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: се̏та, сје̏та

    Latin script: sȅta, sjȅta

Further reading

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