Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kosnǫti

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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 the root of *česàti (to scratch, to comb) + *-nǫti.

Verb

*kosnǫti pf[1][2]

  1. to touch?

Inflection

  • *česàti (to scratch, to comb)
  • *kasati (to touch? to trot? to fold?)
  • *koxati (to make love to)
  • *kosa ((braided) hair)
  • *kosmъ (lock of hair, tuft)

Descendants

(literary)

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “косну́ться”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*kosnǫti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 155

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kosnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 239:v.
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “kosnǫti: kosnǫ kosnetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:b røre (PR 137)