Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/goniti

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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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gánīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European gʷʰon-éye-ti, from *gʷʰen- (to kill, strike).

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian ganýti (to graze, to pasture), Latvian ganît (to guard, to pasture), Lithuanian giñti (to chase, to drive) (1sg. genù), also gìnti (1sg. ginù), Latvian dzìt (to chase, to drive, to persecute) (1sg. dzȩnu), Old Prussian guntwei (to chase, to drive). Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit हन्ति (hánti, to strike, to kill), Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬙𐬌 (jainti), Ancient Greek θείνω (theínō, to kill), Albanian gjuaj (to chase), Old Irish gonaid (to injure).

Verb

*gonìti impf[1][2]

  1. to chase
  2. to persecute

Inflection

  • *gъnàti (to chase, to persecute)
  • *gaňati (to chase, to persecute (iterative))

Descendants

Further reading

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “гнать”, 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 194
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гоню́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*goniti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 23

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gonìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177:v. (b) ‘chase, persecute’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “goniti: gonjǫ gonitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:b jage (PR 137)