Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/posětiti

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.

From Proto-Indo-European *swet-. Includes the prefix *po-. Cognate with Lithuanian svẽčias (“guest”), Ancient Greek ἕταρος (hétaros, “comrade”). Per Derksen, the lengthened grade of the root is unexpected. The Indo-European root comes from the more basic root *swé (“self”) with a root extension.

*posětiti pf

1. to visit

• *svatъ (“kinsman”)
• *svekrъ (“father-in-law”), *svekry (“mother-in-law”)
• *svojь (“own”)
• *sětiti (“to host”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: посѣтити (posětiti)
    • Russian: посети́ть (posetítʹ), 1sg. посещу́ (poseščú), 3sg. посети́т (posetít)
    • Ukrainian: посіти́ти (positýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: посѣтити (posětiti), 1sg. посѣщѫ (posěštǫ)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: посетя́ (posetjá)
  • Macedonian: посети (poseti)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: по̀сјетити / по̀сетити
    • Latin: pòsjetiti / pòsetiti
  • Slovene: posẹ̑titi (archaic)
• West Slavic: —

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “посети́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 60
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*posětiti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 414
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “посети́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress