Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stьlati

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.

• *steliti

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *stíltei, from Proto-Indo-European *stel-.

Baltic cognates include Old Prussian stallīt (“to stand”).

*stьlati impf

1. to spread

• *posteľa / *posteľь (“bedding, bedclothes”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: стьлати (stĭlati)
    • Belarusian: слаць (slacʹ)
    • Russian: стлать (stlatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: сла́ти (sláty), стели́ти (stelýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: стьлати (stĭlati)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: сте́ля (stélja)
  • Slovene: stláti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: stláti
    • Czech: stlát
  • Old Polish: słać, stłać
    • Polish: słać
  • Slovak: stlať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: słać
    • Lower Sorbian: słaś, stłaś

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 473
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стлать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress