Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/turiti

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.

Uncertain:

• Skok: Possibly of expressive or onomatopoeic origin.
• Sobolevsky: Related to Proto-Slavic *turъ (“auroch”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to strike, to push”). Dismissed by Vasmer.

*turiti impf (perfective *turnǫti)

1. (East Slavic) to chase, to drive away
2. (South Slavic) to shove, to cast

• *turati

• *tyrati, *natyrati (“to chase away”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: туры́ць (turýcʹ)
  • Russian: тури́ть (turítʹ) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: тури́ти (turýty)
• South Slavic
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: ту́ркам (túrkam) (dialectal) (+ *-ъkati)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ту̏рити, ту́рати

    Latin script: tȕriti, túrati

  • Slovene: túrati (tonal orthography) (with a-conjugation)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тури́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “турити”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

Per Mladenov, possibly of Proto-Balto-Slavic origin, akin to stative Lithuanian turėti (“to have”), Latvian turēt (“to hold”).

Some authors equate the perfective verb with Etymology 1, however, in view of the semantic mismatch between Bulgarian туря́м (turjám, “to put, to place”) versus вту́рвам се (vtúrvam se, “to rush, to dart”) (the later descendant from *turnǫti pf (“to chase”)) the two homophones most likely are unrelated.

*turiti pf (imperfective *tuřati)

1. (regional) to provide, to put, to set up

• South Slavic
  • Bulgarian: ту́ря (túrja)
  • Macedonian: тури (turi)

• “turėti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012