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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kvisti

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *kweistei. Related to Latvian kvitêt (to shimmer, to glimmer).

  • Per Derksen, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt-, where Proto-Indo-European *ḱw- is depalatalized to *kw- in Balto-Slavic before a back vowel but has its regular reflex św- before a front vowel, and the complex pattern of related Proto-Slavic words with *kv- and *sv- (see Related terms, below) is due to analogical changes in both directions.
  • Per Rix (LIV), there are two separate roots, Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt- (to become bright) and Proto-Indo-European *kweyt- (to shine), the latter found only in Balto-Slavic.
  • Chernykh refers to a substitution of "West-European" *k in place of *ḱ-, presumably suggesting a borrowing from a Centum language to the West of Proto-Balto-Slavic.
  • Trubachev's theory is of "secondary centumization", which appears to be essentially the same as Chernykh's.

Verb

*kvistì impf [1][2][3]

  1. to bloom, to blossom, to flower

Conjugation

Descendants

Some descendants have generalised the present stem to the infinitive.

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: цвьсти (cvĭsti)
      • Belarusian: цвісці́ (cviscí), цьвісьці́ (cʹvisʹcí) (Tarashkevitsa orthography)
      • Russian: цвести́ (cvestí), цвѣсти́ (cvěstí) (obsolete)
      • Ukrainian: квісти́ (kvistý), цвісти́ (cvistý)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: kvisti
    • Old Polish: kwiść
      • Polish: kwiść (archaic or dialectal)
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: kwisć
      • Upper Sorbian: 1sg. ktu (infinitive kćěć is from *kvьtěti)

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kvisti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 259: “v. (c) ‘bloom, blossom’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), kvisti: kvьtǫ kvьtetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c blomstre (PR 139)”
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016), cvẹ̑t”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, →ISBN:*kvisti̋, sed. *kvь̏tǫ
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