Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stiťi

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.

• *stigti (pre-palatalized form)

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *stéigtei, from Proto-Indo-European *stéygʰeti, from the root *steygʰ-. Cognate with Lithuanian steĩgti (“to organize, to found, to produce, (dialectal) to want, to hurry”), steĩgtis (“to hurry up, to try”), Latvian stèigt (“to hurry”), stèigtiês (“to hurry”). Further akin to Sanskrit स्तिघ्नोति (stighnoti, “to rise”), Ancient Greek στείχω (steíkhō, “to walk, to march”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (steigan, “to climb”), Old Irish tíagu (“I go, I walk”), Albanian shteg (“road”).

*sti̋ťi pf (imperfective *stigati)^[1][2]

1. to attain
2. to catch up with, to reach

• *stignǫti (with spread ne-conjugation)

• *dostiťi (“to reach up”) < *do- + *stiťi
• *postiťi (“to accomplish”) < *po- + *stiťi
• *nastiťi (“to catch up”) < *na- + *stiťi
• *zastiťi (“to overtake”) < *za- + *stiťi
• *pristiťi (“to arrive”) < *pri- + *stiťi

• *stьdzà, *stьgna (“path”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *стичи (*stiči) (1399)
    • ⇒ Old East Slavic: *достичи (*dostiči)
    • Russian: -сти́чь (-stíčʹ)
    • Ukrainian: -сти́гти (-stýhty), сти́жити (stýžyty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: сти́же (stíže, “suffices, comes up”) (dialectal, fossilized 3p. sg.)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сти̏ћи

    Latin script: stȉći

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “-стичь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “стигнути¹”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 414
• Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “стижа”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 457
• “steigti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012