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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *sektei, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”), with unexplained -ě-. Cognate with Latin secō (“to cut, to mow”). Explanations for the -ě- vary:
- Rix (LIV) reconstructs an acrodynamic (Narten) present *sēk-. (In the Leiden school view of Derksen and Kortlandt, this would not yield the required acute vowel.)
- Kortlandt asserts that the vowel of *sěkti was lengthened to disambiguate the verb from the root preserved in Lithuanian sèkti (“to watch, to follow”), Proto-Slavic *sočiti (“to pursue, to indicate”) < Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.
- Derksen notes that the short root vowel is preserved in секыра (sekyra, “axe”).
Verb
*sěťi impf[1]
- to cut, mow
Inflection
Conjugation of
*sěťi, *sěče, *sěčetь (
impf.,
-C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm c)
Verbal noun
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Infinitive
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Supine
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L-participle
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*sěčenьje
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*sěťi
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*sěťь
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*sěklъ
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Participles
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Tense
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Past
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Present
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Passive
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*sěčenъ
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*sěkomъ
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Active
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*sěkъ
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*sěky
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Aorist
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Present
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Person
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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Singular
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*sěk(ox)ъ |
*sěče |
*sěče
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*sěkǫ |
*sěčeši |
*sěčetь
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Dual
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*sěk(ox)ově |
*sěk(e/os)ta |
*sěk(e/os)te
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*sěčevě |
*sěčeta |
*sěčete
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Plural
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*sěk(ox)omъ |
*sěk(e/os)te |
*sěkǫ, *sěkošę
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*sěčemъ |
*sěčete |
*sěkǫtь
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Imperfect
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Imperative
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Person
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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Singular
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*sěčaaxъ |
*sěčaaše |
*sěčaaše
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— |
*sěci |
*sěci
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Dual
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*sěčaaxově |
*sěčaašeta |
*sěčaašete
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*sěcěvě |
*sěcěta |
—
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Plural
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*sěčaaxomъ |
*sěčaašete |
*sěčaaxǫ
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*sěcěmъ |
*sěcěte |
—
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Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сѣчи (sěči)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “секу”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “сечь”, 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 159
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*sěkti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 446: “v. (c) ‘cut, mow’”