Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/potъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *paktas, from Proto-Indo-European *pokʷtós, from *pekʷ- + *-tós. Equivalently from *peťi (“to bake”) +‎ *-tъ.

Noun

*pȍtъ m

1. sweat

Inflection

Declension of *pȍtъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pȍtъ	*pȍta	*pȍti
genitive	*pȍta	*potù	*pòtъ
dative	*pȍtu	*potomà	*potòmъ
accusative	*pȍtъ	*pȍta	*pȍty
instrumental	*pȍtъmь, *pȍtomь*	*potomà	*potý
locative	*pȍtě	*potù	*potě̃xъ
vocative	*pote	*pȍta	*pȍti

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: потъ (potŭ)
    • Belarusian: пот (pot)
    • Russian: пот (pot)
    • Ukrainian: піт (pit)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: потъ (potŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⱁⱅⱏ (potŭ)

  • Bulgarian: пот (pot)
  • Macedonian: пот (pot)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̑т

    Latin script: pȏt

  • Slovene: pọ̑t (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pot
    • Czech: pot
  • Kashubian: pòt
  • Polish: pot
  • Slovak: pot
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: pót

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пот”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пот”, 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 61
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “пот”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa