Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tyti

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-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell, to be strong”), cognate with Sanskrit तौति (tauti, “to get strong, to gain authority”).

Verb

*tỳti impf

1. to become fat, gain weight

Inflection

Conjugation of *tyti, *ty, *tyjetь (impf., intr., -V-, s-aorist, accent paradigm c)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*tytьje	*tyti	*tytъ	*tylъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	—	—
Active	*tyvъ	*tyję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*tyxъ	*ty	*ty	*tyjǫ	*tyješi	*tyjetь
Dual	*tyxově	*tysta	*tyste	*tyjevě	*tyjeta	*tyjete
Plural	*tyxomъ	*tyste	*tyšę	*tyjemъ	*tyjete	*tyjǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*tyjaaxъ	*tyjaaše	*tyjaaše	—	*tyji	*tyji
Dual	*tyjaaxově	*tyjaašeta	*tyjaašete	*tyjivě	*tyjita	—
Plural	*tyjaaxomъ	*tyjaašete	*tyjaaxǫ	*tyjimъ	*tyjite	—

Related terms

• *toviti (“to get fat”)
• *tylъ (“rear, back”)
• *tysǫti (“thousand”)
• *tukъ (“fat”)
  • *tučьnъ (“fat, lush”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: тꙑти (tyti)
    • Belarusian: тыць (tycʹ)
    • Russian: тыть (tytʹ) Russian: тучнеть (tučnetʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ти́ти (týty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: тꙑти (tyti)

    Glagolitic script: ⱅⱏⰹⱅⰻ (tyti)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ти̏ти

    Latin script: tȉti

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: týti
    • Czech: týt (archaic)
  • Old Polish: tyć
    • Polish: tyć
  • Slovak: tyť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: tyć
    • Lower Sorbian: tyś

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тыть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “тучный”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 273