Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/sḗˀstei
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Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sed-.[1][2]
Verb
*sḗˀstei
- to sit down
Descendants
- Latgalian: sēst, sēstīs
- Latvian: sēsties
- Lithuanian: sė́sti
- Old Prussian: sindants (“sitting”)
- Proto-Slavic: *sěsti (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “sėsti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 395
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*sěsti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 447: “v. ‘sit down’”