Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/šętati

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.

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From Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to head for, go”). Compare Proto-Germanic *sinþaz (“journey”) and Old Irish sét (“path, way”).

*šętati

1. to move, to stagger

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: шатати (šatati), шататисѧ (šatatisę)
    • Old Ruthenian: шата́тисѧ (šatátisja)
      • Ukrainian: шата́тися (šatátysja)
    • Russian: шата́ть (šatátʹ), шата́ться (šatátʹsja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: шѩтати (šjętati) (Serbian recension)
  • Bulgarian: ше́там (šétam)
  • Macedonian: шета (šeta)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ше́тати

    Latin script: šétati

  • Slovene: šétati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: šátat

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шата́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “шататися”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN