Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/platiti

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.

Denominal causative from *platъ (“fabric”) +‎ *-iti, originally implying “to cover up, to overlay”.

South Slavic:
*platiti pf (imperfective *plaťati)

North Slavic:
*platiti impf (perfective *zaplatiti)

1. to pay
2. to reward

• *plata, *plaťa (“payment”)
• *platežь (action noun)
• *platьcь (agent noun)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: плаціць (placicʹ)
  • Russian: плати́ть (platítʹ)
  • Ukrainian: плати́ти (platýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: платити (platiti)
  • Bulgarian: платя́ (platjá)
  • Macedonian: плати (plati)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пла́тити

    Latin script: plátiti

  • Slovene: platíti (obsolete)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: platiti
    • Czech: platit
  • Kashubian: płacëc
  • Polabian: plotĕt
  • Polish: płacić
  • Old Slovak: platiť
    • Pannonian Rusyn: плациц (placic)
    • Slovak: platiť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: рłаćić
    • Lower Sorbian: płaśiś

• Non-Slavic
  • → Aromanian: plãtescu
  • → Romanian: plăti

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “платить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “плащам, платя”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 327