Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zinǫti

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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

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Etymology

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Per Rix (LIV), from a nasal-infix form Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰi-né-h₁- with metathesis from the root *ǵʰeh₁y-, with analogical lengthening of the vowel to *-ī- from the metathesized zero-grade *ǵʰih₁-. Derksen is unconvinced of the nasal-infix explanation, but agrees on the root involved. Cognate with Old Norse gína (to yap, to yawn), gina (to yawn), gine (to be wide open), Old High German ginēn (to be wide open). More distantly cognate with Lithuanian žióvauti (to yawn), Latvian žàvât (to yawn) (East Latvian dialectal, where the sustained and falling tones have merged), Lithuanian žióti (to open one's mouth), Latin hiō (to yawn).

Verb

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*zìnǫti pf

  1. to gape, to open (one's mouth)

Inflection

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Descendants

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References

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  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “зия́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 325
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zinǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 545
  • Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2010), “*orz(ъ)zinǫti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 36 (*orz(ъ)zeleněti/*orz(ъ)zeleniti (sę) – *otъgrěbati (sę)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 9
  • Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “g̑ʰeh₁i̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 173–174