Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kysnǫti

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.

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*kỳsnǫti impf

1. to become/get wet (South and East Slavic)

   Synonyms: *moknǫti, *mokrěti

2. to become/turn sour

   Synonyms: *kysěti, *kysati

• *kypěti (“to boil, to seethe”), *kynǫti
• *kvapъ, *kvapiti
• *kopъtь (“soot; steam, fume, smoke”)
• *koprъ (“dill”)

• *kvasъ (“leaven, fermented drink”), *kvasiti (“to sot, to forment”)
• *kъsenь (“caviar, spawn”)
• *kъsьnъ (“late, slow”) (possibly)

• *kysati (“to become/turn sour”) (possibly)
• *kyslъ (“sour”) (possibly)
  • *kyslica/*kyslika
  • *kyslina
  • *kysljadь
  • *kyslota

• Church Slavonic: кꙑснѫти (kysnǫti) (?), кꙑснути (kysnuti), киснути (kisnuti) (Russian)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: кꙑснути (kysnuti), киснути (kisnuti)
    • Belarusian: кі́снуць (kísnucʹ)
    • Russian: ки́снуть (kísnutʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ки́снути (kýsnuty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: *кꙑснѫти (*kysnǫti)
  • Bulgarian: ки́сна (kísna)
  • Macedonian: кисне (kisne)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ки̏снути

    Latin script: kȉsnuti

  • Slovene: kísniti (tonal orthography) (obsolete)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: kysnouti
  • Old Polish: kisnąć
    • Polish: kisnąć
  • Slovak: kysnúť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kisnyć
    • Lower Sorbian: kisnuś

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “киснуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kysnǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 273
• Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “въкꙑснѫти”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 144
• Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “въскꙑснѫти”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 152
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “кꙑсьнути, кꙑсну”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, кꙑсну column 1419