Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stojiti

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.

Denominal from Proto-Slavic *stojь + *-iti.

The South Slavic descendants are used in parallel to the imperfective Proto-Slavic *stojati to denote punctual events. The East Slavic forms have been reinterpreted as imperfective around 18 cent., probably under the influence of Polish stać (“to cost, to be worth”), a calque of German kosten.

*stojiti pf (imperfective *stojati)

1. (intransitive) to transpire, to take place/effect
2. (transitive) to adjust, to bring in position
3. (reflexive) to bring oneself under some condition

Later:

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: сто́ить (stóitʹ, “to cost, to be worth”)
  • Ukrainian: сто́ïти (stóïty, “to cost, to be worth”)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: стоя́ (stojá), сто́вам (stóvam, “to get involved, to become”) (rare, dialectal)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: съ́стоя (sǎ́stoja, “to take place”), застоя́ (zastojá, “to fixate, to immobilize”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: стоити (rare)

    Latin script: stojiti (rare)

• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “стоить”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “стоя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 480