Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tuxnǫti

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

Related to *tušiti (“to extinguish”)

Verb

*tuxnǫti

1. to go out, to die down, die out

Inflection

Conjugation of *tuxnǫti, *tuše, *tuxnetь (?, -C/n-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*tušenьje	*tuxnǫti	*tuxnǫtъ	*tuxlъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*tušenъ	*tuxnomъ
Active	*tuxъ	*tuxny

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*tux(ox)ъ	*tuše	*tuše	*tuxnǫ	*tuxneši	*tuxnetь
Dual	*tux(ox)ově	*tux(e/os)ta	*tux(e/os)te	*tuxnevě	*tuxneta	*tuxnete
Plural	*tux(ox)omъ	*tux(e/os)te	*tuxǫ, *tuxošę	*tuxnemъ	*tuxnete	*tuxnǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*tuxněaxъ	*tuxněaše	*tuxněaše	—	*tuxni	*tuxni
Dual	*tuxněaxově	*tuxněašeta	*tuxněašete	*tuxněvě	*tuxněta	—
Plural	*tuxněaxomъ	*tuxněašete	*tuxněaxǫ	*tuxněmъ	*tuxněte	—

Notes:
• Aorist *tuxeste ⇒ *tušeste, ...

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ту́хнуць (túxnucʹ)
  • Russian: ту́хнуть (túxnutʹ)
  • Ukrainian: ту́хнути (túxnuty)
• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: потухнѫти (potuxnǫti)

  • ⇒ Slovene: potúhniti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: tuchnout (“to fade”) (obsolete?)
    • ⇒ Czech: utuchnout
  • ⇒ Slovak: stuchnúť (“to fade”)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ту́хнуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress