Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pręsti

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-Balto-Slavic *(s)prenˀstei, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)prend-. Cognate with Lithuanian sprę́sti (“to stretch, to spread, to judge, to solve”) (3sg. spréndžia), Latvian spriêst (“to stretch, to press, to judge, to discuss”) (1sg. spriêžu), Old English sprindel (“snare, hook”). Derksen ascribes the acute tone in the root to Winter's law.

*pręsti impf

1. to spin

• *prǫdъ (“stream, current”)
  • *prǫdělь (“bank”)
  • *prǫdišče (“riverbed, channel”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: прѧсти (pręsti)
    • Belarusian: пра́сці (prásci)
    • Russian: прясть (prjastʹ)
    • Ukrainian: пря́сти (prjásty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: прѧсти (pręsti)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⱃⱔⱄⱅⰻ (pręsti)

  • Bulgarian: преда́ (predá)
  • Macedonian: преде (prede)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пре̏сти

    Latin script: prȅsti

  • Slovene: présti, prẹ́sti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: přiesti
    • Czech: příst
  • Kashubian: przësc, przisc
  • Polish: prząść
  • Slovak: priasť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: přasć
    • Lower Sorbian: pśěsć

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “прясть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 79
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pręsti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 419
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пряду́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress