Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/šiti

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *sjū́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *syewh₁-, an enlargement of *seh₂y- (“to bind, to link”).

*šìti impf^[1][2][3]

1. to sew, to embroider

   Synonym: *vęzti

• *šijati, *šivati (intensive, factative)
• *šьvъ (“stitch”)
  • *šьvьnъ (“sewing”)
  • *podъšьva (“soil”)
• *šьja (“neck, cervix”)
• *šьvьcь (“seamster, tailor”) (agent noun)
• *šidlo (“awl”) (tool noun)

• *sětь (“snare, net”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ши́ти (šíti)
    • Belarusian: шыць (šycʹ)
    • Russian: шить (šitʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ши́ти (šýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: шити (šiti)
  • Bulgarian: ши́я (šíja)
  • Macedonian: ши́е (šíe)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ши̏ти

    Latin script: šȉti

  • Slovene: šíti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: šíti
    • Czech: šít
  • Kashubian: szëc
  • Polabian: sait
  • Polish: szyć
  • Slovak: šiť
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: šyś
    • Upper Sorbian: šić

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress