Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tęgnǫti

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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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

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.

Verb

*tęgnǫti impf

  1. to pull

Inflection

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Descendants

References

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “тяну́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 278
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*tęgnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 493
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тя́га”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress