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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/otъ

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 *at, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óti, from *h₁éti. Cognate with Lithuanian at- (“back, away”), Latvian at- (“back away”), Old Prussian at-, et- (“back, away”).

Preposition

*otъ [1]

  1. (with genitive) from, away from
  2. (with genitive) originating from, starting from (a place or time), since
  3. (with genitive) of, made of, consisting of
  4. (with genitive) out of (a selection)
  5. (with genitive) by (in passive; by the action of)

Usage notes

All languages except OCS, Russian, Sorbian and Bulgarian have generalized ot to od, which is the statistically more prevalent form due to word sandhi (i.e. before vowels, sonorants and voiced consonants), and which was reanalyzed as the basic, normal form.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Descendants
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic: отъ (otŭ)
      Glagolitic: ⱁⱅⱏ (otŭ)
    • Bulgarian: от (ot)
    • Macedonian: од (od)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: о̏д, о̏да
      Latin: ȍd, ȍda
    • Slovene: od (tonal orthography)

Further reading
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “от”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ot(ъ)”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 382: “prep. ‘from’”
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