Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/toliti

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *talīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *tolH-éye-ti, from *(s)telH- (“to still”). Baltic cognates include Lithuanian táldyti (“to silence, to soothe”) (dialectal), tìlti (“to become silent”) (1sg. tylù), tylė́ti (“to be silent”) (1sg. tyliù), Latvian tilinât (“to spoil (a child)”). Other Indo-European cognates include Old Irish con·tuili (“to sleep”), Old Armenian թողում (tʻołum, “to leave”), possibly Old High German stilli (“quiet”).

*toliti

1. to calm, to soothe

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: утолити (utoliti, “to convince, to pacify”)
    • Belarusian: наталі́ць (natalícʹ)
    • Russian: утоли́ть (utolítʹ, “to satisfy, to quench, to soothe”), 1sg. утолю́ (utoljú), 3sg. утоли́т (utolít)
    • Ukrainian: утоли́тися (utolýtysja, “to be satisfied”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: оутолити (utoliti, “to convince, to pacify”), 1sg. оутолѭ (utoljǫ)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: утоля́ (utoljá)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: уто̀лити (“to calm down”), 1sg. у̀толӣм

    Latin: utòliti (“to calm down”), 1sg. ùtolīm

  • Slovene: tóliti (“to calm, to soothe, to quench”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. tọ́lim (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: tulit
  • Old Polish: tolić
    • Polish: tulić (partially)
  • Slovak: túliť

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “утоли́ть”, 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 295
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*toliti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 495
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “толи́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress