Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gasnǫti

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 the root of *gasìti + *-nǫti, from Proto-Indo-European *(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”).

*gàsnǫti impf^[1][2]

1. to be extinguished, to go out

• *gasìti (“to extinguish”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: гаснѫти (gasnǫti)
    • Belarusian: га́снуць (hásnucʹ)
    • Russian: га́снуть (gásnutʹ)
    • Ukrainian: га́снути (hásnuty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: га́сна (gásna)
  • Macedonian: гасне (gasne)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: га̏снути

    Latin script: gȁsnuti

  • Slovene: gásniti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: gasnąc
  • Old Czech: hasnúti
    • Czech: hasnout
  • Polish: gasnąć
  • Slovak: hasnúť
  • Slovincian: gasnõć
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hasnyć
    • Lower Sorbian: gasnuś

• 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), “*gasnǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 104