Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tęgnǫti

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.

From the root of *tęťi (“to pull”) + *-nǫti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ting-, *teng-, from Proto-Indo-European *tengʰ-.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian tìngti (“to become slow”) (3sg. tìngsta), tingė́ti (“to be lazy”) (3sg. tìngi).

Indo-European cognates include Old Norse þyngja (“burden”), þīsl (“drawbar, shaft”), Old High German dīhsala (“drawbar, shaft”), Latin tēmō (“drawbar, shaft”) < *tenk-smō.

*tęgnǫti impf

1. to pull

• *natęgnǫti

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: тѧгнѫти (tęgnǫti), тѧнѫти (tęnǫti)
    • Belarusian: цягну́ць (cjahnúcʹ)
    • Russian: тяну́ть (tjanútʹ)
    • Ukrainian: тягну́ти (tjahnúty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: тѧгнѫти (tęgnǫti)
  • Bulgarian: те́гна (tégna)
  • Macedonian: тегне (tegne)
  • Slovene: tė́gniti (“to provide, to stretch”) (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: cygnąc
  • Old Czech: táhnúti
    • Czech: táhnout
  • Polabian: tągnǫt
  • Polish: ciągnąć
  • Silesian: ciōngnōńć
  • Slovak: tiahnuť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: ćahnyć
    • Lower Sorbian: śěgnuś

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• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тя́га”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress