Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gaťę

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.

Most conveniently explained from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go, to walk around”) which was displaced by Proto-Slavic *jьti but is retained in dialectal Lithuanian góti apart from some old derivations. Stankiewicz, before this was understood, proposed *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab”) found as Proto-Slavic *gabati (“to grab”) meaning in Lithuanian góbti also “to wrap, to cover”, however from the first root there is *gatь (“a causeway through swamps”), and suffixed +‎ *-ja one had therefore (one leg of a pair or trinity of) rain trousers for walking through swamps, which is particularly likely since one knows that the Slavs before their expansion dwelt in the Polish swamps.

*gaťę f pl

1. underwear

• *gaťьnikъ (“girdle, braces”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *гачѣ (*gačě) if plural and *гачи (*gači) if dual
    • Russian: га́чи (gáči), га́ти (gáti)
    • Ukrainian: га́чі (háči)
    • → Finnish: kaatiot
    • → Ingrian: kaatiat
• South Slavic:
  • Russian Church Slavonic: гащѧ (gaštę)
    • → Russian: га́щи (gášči)
  • Bulgarian: га́щи (gášti), гащя́ (gaštjá)
  • Macedonian: гаќи (gaḱi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: га̏ће

    Latin: gȁće, gȁća f sg

    • → Hungarian: gatya
      • → Austrian German: Gate

  • Slovene: gȃče, gȃte
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: háce
    • Czech: hace
  • Old Polish: gace
    • Polish: gacie
      • • → Czech: gatě, gaťe, katě
          • ⇒ gaťky
        • → Slovak: gate, gaťe,
          • ⇒ gatky
            • → Yiddish: גאַטקעס (gatkes)
      • → Ukrainian: ґа́чі (gáči), ґа́ці (gáci)
        • → English: gotchies, gotch (see it for further variants)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: haca
    • Lower Sorbian: gaca

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gaťi”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 106
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гащи”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 233
• Nieminen, Eino (1957) “Die urslavische Benennung der Bekleidung der Beine *gatję bzw. *gatjě”, in Scando-Slavica (in German), volume 3, →DOI, pages 224–235
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “gače”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *ga̋t'i in *ga̋ty”
• Stankiewicz, Edward (1955) “[Review of Sławski’s Etymological Dictionary of the Polish language]”, in Word‎, volume 11, number 4, →DOI, page 630
• Anikin, A. E. (2016) “га́ча I”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 10 (галочка – глыча), Moscow: Nestor-Historia, →ISBN, page 138
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “га́чи”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “га́ча”, 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 183
• В. А. Меркулова (1980) “Русские этимологии IV”, in Этимология 1978, Moscow, page 102: “сугат”
• Oleg Trubachyov (1975) “Рецензии. В. И. Абаев. Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка.”, in Вопросы языкознания, number 1, Moscow: Nauka, page 133