Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oběťati

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

Alternative forms

*obvěťati (Trubachev (ESSJa))
*obvětati (Trubachev (ESSJa))

Etymology

From *ob- +‎ *věťati.

Verb

*oběťati

to promise, to pledge

Inflection

Conjugation of *oběťati, *oběťa, *oběťajetь (?, -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*oběťanьje	*oběťati	*oběťatъ	*oběťalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*oběťanъ	*oběťajemъ
Active	*oběťavъ	*oběťaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*oběťaxъ	*oběťa	*oběťa	*oběťajǫ	*oběťaješi	*oběťajetь
Dual	*oběťaxově	*oběťasta	*oběťaste	*oběťajevě	*oběťajeta	*oběťajete
Plural	*oběťaxomъ	*oběťaste	*oběťašę	*oběťajemъ	*oběťajete	*oběťajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*oběťaaxъ	*oběťaaše	*oběťaaše	—	*oběťaji	*oběťaji
Dual	*oběťaaxově	*oběťaašeta	*oběťaašete	*oběťajivě	*oběťajita	—
Plural	*oběťaaxomъ	*oběťaašete	*oběťaaxǫ	*oběťajimъ	*oběťajite	—

Related terms

*věťati (“to say”)
*otъvěťati (“to answer”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Middle Russian: обѣчати (oběčati, “to promise, to pledge”) (14th century) (see also the next two columns)
  - Russian: обеча́ть (obečátʹ, “to promise”) (Northern dialectal), обвеча́ть (obvečátʹ, “to promise, to bequeath”) (Northern dialectal), обвича́ть (obvičátʹ, “to promise”) (Arkhangelsk dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: обѣщати (oběštati, “to promise, to pledge”), 1sg. обѣщаѭ (oběštajǫ)
  
  Glagolitic: [Term?]
  - → Old East Slavic: обѣщати (oběščati, “to promise, to pledge”)
  - → Russian: обеща́ть (obeščátʹ, “to promise”), 1sg. обеща́ю (obeščáju)
- Bulgarian: обеща́я (obeštája, “to promise”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: обѐћати (“to promise”), 1sg. обѐћа̄м
  
  Latin: obèćati (“to promise”), 1sg. obèćām
- Slovene: obẹ́čati (“to promise, to pledge”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. obẹ̑čam (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: oběcěti (“to promise, to pledge”)
  - Czech: oběcati (“to promise, to appoint”) (archaic), oběcet (dialectal)
- Old Polish: obiecać
  - Polish: obiecać (“to promise”)
  - → Belarusian: абяца́ць (abjacácʹ, “to promise”)
  - → Ukrainian: обіця́ти (obicjáty, “to promise”)
- Slovak: obecať (“to establish”)
- Slovincian: wôbjêcac (“to promise”)

References

Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “обе́т”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 584
Derksen, Rick (2008) “*obětjati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 361
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “обеща́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*obvět(j)ati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 31 (*obvelčenьje – *obžьniviny), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 31

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