Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dojiti

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.

By surface analysis, *dojь +‎ *-iti, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-. Cognate with Latvian dêt (“to suck”), Sanskrit धयति (dháyati, “to suck”), Latin fellō (“to suck”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌳𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (daddjan, “to breastfeed”).

*dojìti impf^[1][2]

1. to give milk
2. to milk

• *dojidlo (“milking machine? milking?”)
  • *dojidlica (“nurse, nursing animal”)
  • *dojidlьja
  • *dojidlьna
    • *dojidlьnica

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: доити (doiti)
    • Old Ruthenian: дои́ти (doíti)
      • Belarusian: даі́ць (daícʹ)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: дои́ти (doýty)
      • Ukrainian: дої́ти (dojíty)
    • Russian: дои́ть (doítʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: доити (doiti)

    Glagolitic script: ⰴⱁⰹⱅⰹ (doiti)

  • Bulgarian: доя́ (dojá)
  • Macedonian: до́и (dói)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: до̀јити

    Latin script: dòjiti

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): dojȉti
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): dojȉt
  • Slovene: dojīti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: dojit
  • Polabian: düjĕ (3sg.)
  • Polish: doić
  • Slovak: dojiť
  • Slovincian: dôjic
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: dejić, dojić
    • Lower Sorbian: dojś

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “доить”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 259
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дои́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dojiti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 53