Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pytati

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 *pew-. Cognate with Latin putāre (“to cut off branches, estimate, consider, think”), Tocharian A putk, as well as (without *-t-) Lithuanian piáuti, Latin paviō, Ancient Greek παίω (paíō), Albanian fus (“insert, put (something) in”).

*pȳtàti

1. to ask, examine

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: пꙑтати (pytati)
    • Belarusian: пыта́ць (pytácʹ)
    • Russian: пыта́ть (pytátʹ, “to torture, (colloquial) to try”), 1sg. пыта́ю (pytáju)
    • Ukrainian: пита́ти (pytáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: пꙑтати (pytati, “to examine”), 1sg. пꙑтаѭ (pytajǫ)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: пи́там (pítam, “to ask”)
  • Macedonian: пита (pita)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пи́тати (“to ask”)

    Latin script: pítati (“to ask”)

  • Slovene: pítati (“to ask”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. pȋtam (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ptát
  • Old Polish: pytać
    • Polish: pytać
    • Silesian: pytać
  • Old Slovak: pýtať
    • Pannonian Rusyn: питац (pitac)
    • Slovak: pýtať (“to ask”)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: pëtac
    • Slovincian: pëtac
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: pytać
    • Lower Sorbian: pytaś

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пытать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “пытать”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 88