Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/uměti

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 *umъ +‎ *-ěti.

Verb

*uměti

1. to know (how), to be able, can

Conjugation

Derived terms

• *orzuměti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: оумѣти (uměti)
    • Belarusian: уме́ць (umjécʹ)/ ўмець (ŭmjecʹ)
    • Russian: уме́ть (umétʹ)
    • Ukrainian: вмі́ти (vmíty)/ умі́ти (umíty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: оумѣти (uměti)

    Glagolitic script: ⱆⰿⱑⱅⰹ (uměti)

  • Bulgarian: уме́я (uméja)
  • Macedonian: умее (umee)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: у̀мети, у̀мјети

    Latin script: ùmeti, ùmjeti

  • Slovene: uméti
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: ùmiec
  • Old Czech: uměti
    • Czech: umět
  • Old Polish: umieć, humieć
    • Polish: umieć
    • Silesian: umieć
  • Slovak: umieť
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: huměś
    • Upper Sorbian: wuměć

Further reading

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