Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pojiti

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

• *poìti

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *poh₃y-éyeti, causative/iterative from *peh₃y-, extended version of *peh₃-. See that root for cognates.

Verb

*pojìti

1. to give to drink

Inflection

Conjugation of *pojiti, *poji, *pojitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm c)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*pojenьje	*pojiti	*pojitъ	*pojilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*pojenъ	*pojimъ
Active	*pojь	*poję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*pojixъ	*poji	*poji	*pojǫ	*pojiši	*pojitь
Dual	*pojixově	*pojista	*pojiste	*pojivě	*pojita	*pojite
Plural	*pojixomъ	*pojiste	*pojišę	*pojimъ	*pojite	*pojętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*pojaaxъ	*pojaaše	*pojaaše	—	*poji	*poji
Dual	*pojaaxově	*pojaašeta	*pojaašete	*pojivě	*pojita	—
Plural	*pojaaxomъ	*pojaašete	*pojaaxǫ	*pojimъ	*pojite	—

Notes:
• (*)*pojivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Related terms

• *pìti (“to drink”)
• *pȋvo (“beer”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: поити (poiti)
    • Belarusian: паі́ць (paícʹ)
    • Russian: пои́ть (poítʹ)
    • Ukrainian: поїти (pojity)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: поилъ (poilŭ, “(he) gave to drink”, masc. nom. sg. l-part.)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: поя́ (pojá, “to give to drink, to water”), sg. пои́м (poím)
  • Macedonian: пои (poi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̀јити (“to give to drink”), 1sg. по̀јӣм

    Latin: pòjiti (“to give to drink”), 1sg. pòjīm

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): pojȉti (“to give to drink”), 2sg. pojĩš
  • Slovene: pojíti (“to give to drink”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. pojím (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pojiti
    • Czech: pojit
  • Polish: poić
  • Slovak: pojiť

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*poìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пои́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress