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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/něžiti

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 *něga + *-iti.

Verb

*něžiti[1]

  1. to tender

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: нѣжити (něžiti)
  • South Slavic
    • Slovene: ńežiti (tonal orthography) (obsolete, bookish)
  • West Slavic
    • Old Czech: něžiti
      • Czech: něžit

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*něžiti(sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 106
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