Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rěšiti

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.

The exact Proto Balto-Slavic form is contested. Vasmer adduces Lithuanian raišýti, Lithuanian rišti, Lithuanian ryšys, Latin rica as cognates. If so, from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to twist, bend”).

*rěšiti

1. to untie
2. to solve

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рѣшити (rěšiti)
    • Old Ruthenian: рѣши́ти (rěšíti)
      • Belarusian: рашы́ць (rašýcʹ)
      • Ukrainian: ріши́ти (rišýty)
    • Russian: реши́ть (rešítʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: рѣшити (rěšiti)

    Glagolitic script: ⱃⱑⱎⰺⱅⰺ (rěšiti)

  • Bulgarian: реша́ (rešá)
  • Macedonian: реши (reši)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ре́шити; рије́шити

    Latin script: réšiti; rijéšiti

  • Slovene: rešīti, rẹ́šiti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: řešit (“to deal with; to discuss”)
  • Kashubian: rzeszëc (“to tie”)
  • ⇒ Old Polish: rozdrzeszyć, rozgrzeszyć, rozrzeszyć (“to absolve”)
    • Polish: rozgrzeszyć
  • Polabian: *resĕt
    • ⇒ Polabian: resenĕ
  • Slovak: riešiť

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “решить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress