Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kytiti

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.

*kỳta (“bunch”) +‎ *-iti

*kỳtiti impf

1. to bundle, to stack

   → to form a bouquet

   → to decorate, to adorn

• *kytьnъ (“pretty, adorned”)
• *kytьje (“sheaf”)
• *kytežь (“stacking, decoration”)

• *kyčiti (“to hang, to decorate”)
• *kytъ (“sheaf, decoration”)

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: кити́ти (kytýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: *кꙑтити (*kytiti)

    ⇒ Romanian: chiti (“to decorate”)

  • Bulgarian: ки́тя (kítja)
  • Macedonian: кити (kiti)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ки̏тити

    Latin script: kȉtiti

  • Slovene: kítiti

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kytiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 281
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “китя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 399
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “kítiti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si