Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/topnǫti

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 *topiti (“to plunge”) + *-nǫti

*topnǫti

1. to plunge, to dunk
   1. → to sink, to submerge (in liquid)
   2. → to drown

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: тонѫти (tonǫti), тонути (tonuti)
    • Belarusian: тану́ць (tanúcʹ)
    • Russian: тону́ть (tonútʹ)
    • Ukrainian: тону́ти (tonúty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: тонѫти (tonǫti)

  • Bulgarian: тъ́на (tǎ́na)
  • Macedonian: тоне (tone)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: то̀нути

    Latin script: tònuti

  • Slovene: tóniti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: tonúti
    • Czech: tonout
  • Kashubian: tonąc
  • Old Polish: tonąć
    • Polish: tonąć
    • Silesian: tōnōńć, tynōńć
  • Slovak: tоnúť
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: toniś

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