Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sy

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *sants, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sónts.

Baltic cognate is Lithuanian sañt (transgr.).

Indo-European cognates are Sanskrit सत् (sat), सत्य (satya), Ancient Greek ὤν (ṓn), Latin praesēns, absēns, sōns, sonticus, Proto-Germanic *sanþaz, *sunjaz.

According to Vasmer, Ukrainian су́тий (sútyj) may be derived from consonant stem (*sǫtь). Compare *mogǫt-,^[1] *slovǫtь^[2],^[3] *žьmǫtь.^[4]

Verb

*sy

present active participle of *byti

Inflection

This participle needs an inflection-table template.

Nominative: *sy, *sǫťi, *sy

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: сꙑ (sy)
  - → Belarusian: су́шчы (súščy)
  - → Russian: су́щий (súščij)
  - → Ukrainian: су́щий (súščyj)
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: су̏штӣ
    
    Latin script: sȕštī
- Bulgarian: същ (sǎšt)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: сући
  
  Latin script: sući
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jsa
  - Czech: jsa, jsouc, jsouce, jsoucí
- Old Polish: sę, sąc, sący

References

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

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “суть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сущий”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “су́щий”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 489
А. И. Толкачев (1978) “К истории словообразования форм со значением субъективной оценки (квалитативов) личных собственных имен греческого происхождения в древнерусском языке XI–XV вв. III”, in Этимология 1976, Moscow, page 116: “Суффикс -ут-”

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

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

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

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

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