Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/šutъ

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.

Derivative with the suffix +‎ *-ъ from the verb *šusti, from earlier *sjaustī, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sjaustei, from earlier *sjauttei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sewt-e-ti, from *h₂sewt- (“to move about, roil, seethe”). Probably akin to Latvian šaũlis (“fool”).

*šutъ m

1. (probably) clumsy, ungainly, unhandy creature or person

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: шутъ (šutŭ) (c. 1076); ? шютъ (šjutŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: шутъ (šut) (c. 1627)
      • ⇒ Old Ruthenian: шутство́ (šutstvó)
      • Belarusian: шут (šut) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: шут (šut) (dialectal)
    • Russian: шут (šut)
• South Slavic:
  • Church Slavonic: шоутъ (šutŭ) (Russian recension)
  • Bulgarian: шут (šut)
  • Macedonian: шут (šut)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: шу̏т

    Latin script: šȕt

  • ⇒ Slovene: šȗtəc (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: szut
    • Middle Polish: szut (17ᵗʰ c.)
  • ⇒ Slovak: šútast

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шут”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• “siausti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012