Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/taptéi

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This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

Unclear:

In either case, it is presumed that the present stem is innovated from the aorist.

Further origin probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tep- (to trample, to tread, to inflict) (per Mladenov, Zubatý), whence also Proto-Slavic *tepti (to flog, to beat), Latvian tept (to smear), Lithuanian tèpti (to smear), perhaps also Lithuanian tapýti (to sculpt). Possibly also related to Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, place, field), τοπάζω (topázō, I strive towards; I think, I guess) (alternatively derived from a pre-Greek substrate).

Verb

*taptéi

  1. (possibly originally) to get stuck, moulded
  2. to become

Conjugation

Most likely mobile accent.

  • present conjugations: n-inflex, ye-present;
  • preterite conjugations: thematic aorist (Latvian), ē-preterite (Lithuanian).

Descendants

  • East Baltic:[3]
    • Latvian: tapt
    • Lithuanian: tapti
  • Slavic:

References

  1. ^ Stang, Christian (1966) Vergleichende Grammatik der baltischen Sprachen, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, page 347
  2. ^ Svensson, Miguel Villanueva (2006) “Traces of *o-Grade Middle Root Aorists in Baltic and Slavic”, in Historische Sprachforschung, volume 119, Sonderdruck, pages 297-298
  3. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “tapt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Further reading

  • tapti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012