Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gasiti

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.

Per Derksen, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷōs-eye-, lengthened causative of *(s)gʷes-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian gesýti (“to extinguish”), 1sg. gesaũ, gèsti (“to be extinguished, to go out”), 1sg. gestù, Latvian dzēst (“to extinguish”), dzist (“to be extinguished, to go out”). Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit जसते (jásate, “to be extinguished”), जासयति (jāsáyati, “to extinguish, to exhaust”), Ancient Greek σβέννῡμι (sbénnūmi, “to extinguish”).

*gasìti impf

1. to extinguish

• *gàsnǫti (“to be extinguished, to go out”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: гасити (gasiti)
    • Old Belarusian: гасити (hasiti)
      • Belarusian: гасі́ць (hasícʹ)
    • Ukrainian: гаси́ти (hasýty)
    • Russian: гаси́ть (gasítʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: оугасити (ugasiti)

    Glagolitic script:

  • Bulgarian: гася́ (gasjá)
  • Macedonian: гаси (gasi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: га́сити

    Latin script: gásiti

  • Slovene: gasīti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hasiti
    • Czech: hasit
  • Kashubian: gasëc
  • Polabian: gosĕ (3sg.)
  • Polish: gasić
  • Slovak: hasiť
  • Slovincian: gasëc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hasyć
    • Lower Sorbian: gasyś

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “гаси́ть”, 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 182
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гаси́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gasiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 104