Reconstruction talk:Proto-Slavic/prijati

Is the divergence in meaning of przyjąć to sprzyjać, which is morphologically a baseword for the latter, a secondary development? --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 13:55, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

I doubt that przyjąć pf is actually related to sprzyjać impf. Note different aspect. przyjąć seems to be przy- +‎ jąć (“literary: to begin; obsolete: to take hold”), imperfective of jąć being, I think, imać. Compare přijmout pf, přijímat impf. (Also, I think the nasal vowel would not appear in Polish out of nowhere.) Keφr 14:24, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Oh I see. So this must be a mistake then, or defective orthography.. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 18:12, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

In Russian (and other East Slavic) прия́ть (prijátʹ) also means "to accept", "to receive", an archaic form of приня́ть (prinjátʹ), like Polish przyjąć. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 22:07, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

I guess the former… the definition they give looks a bit suspicious to me, and completely unrelated: przyjechać (“to arrive (by driving or riding)”). But still, these two are most probably… false friends. Keφr 08:38, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

False cognates, indeed. See also Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/yeh₂-

Zezen (talk) 07:50, 29 July 2021 (UTC)