Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stajati

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.

Secondary form of *stati +‎ *-jati (a/j-derivation), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂yeti.

*stajati impf^[1]

1. (intransitive) to stay
2. (intransitive) to stop, to get still

Originally, present stem with mobile accent (ap C), aorist - fixed (ap A):

Reanalyzed in some descendants (Bulgarian, Slovene, Sorbian) at a later stage:

• *staja (“room, shelter”)
• *stajadlo (“stand”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: стаꙗти (stajati)
• South Slavic
  • Old Church Slavonic: стаꙗти (stajati)
  • Bulgarian: ста́ям (stájam)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (“to stop”)

    Cyrillic script: ста̀јати

    Latin script: stàjati

  • Slovene: -stājati (in prefixed verbs)
    • ⇒ Slovene: ostājati, postājati, sestājati se, vstājati (etc.)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: stajać
    • Polish: stawać (partially)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: stajaś

• Snoj, Marko (2016) “pristājati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Prvotno *prista̋jati”

From *stati +‎ *-ěti.

*stajati impf

1. Alternative form of *stojati

• South Slavic
  • Serbo-Croatian: (“to stand still”)

    Cyrillic script: ста̀јати

    Latin script: stàjati