Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/peťi

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 *pektei, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti. Cognate with Lithuanian kèpti, Latvian cept (via metathesis), Proto-Celtic *kʷokʷeti, Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō (whence English cook from Latin coquō), Proto-Indo-Iranian *páčati, Albanian pjek.

Akin to the Vulgar Latin loanword копторъ (koptorŭ, “cooker, hovel”) in demotic Church Slavonic (spec. Middle Bulgarian).

Verb

*peťì impf (perfective *peknǫti)^[1]^[2]^[3]

to bake
(reflexive) to get motivated, to put effort into, to care for

Conjugation

Conjugation of *peťi, *peče, *pečetь (impf., -C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm c)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*pečenьje	*peťi	*peťь	*peklъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*pečenъ	*pekomъ
Active	*pekъ	*peky

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*pek(ox)ъ	*peče	*peče	*pekǫ	*pečeši	*pečetь
Dual	*pek(ox)ově	*pek(e/os)ta	*pek(e/os)te	*pečevě	*pečeta	*pečete
Plural	*pek(ox)omъ	*pek(e/os)te	pekǫ, pekošę	*pečemъ	*pečete	*pekǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*pečaaxъ	*pečaaše	*pečaaše	—	*pьci	*pьci
Dual	*pečaaxově	*pečaašeta	*pečaašete	*pьcěvě	*pьcěta	—
Plural	*pečaaxomъ	*pečaašete	*pečaaxǫ	*pьcěmъ	*pьcěte	—

Aorist *pekeste ⇒ *pečeste, ...

Intensive/iterative stem: *-pičati

Derived terms

*jьzpeťi
*zapeťi
- *zapekъ (“constipation”)
*perpeťi
*pripeťi
- *pripekъ (“sun-bathe”)
*napeťi
*opeťi
- *o(b)peka (“guardianship”)
- *o(b)pekunъ (“guardian”)
*orzpeťi
*otъpeťi
*sъpeťi
*pekъ (“heat, fervor”)
*pekařь (“baker”)
*peťь (“oven (place)”)
*pьklo (“fire elemental, scorch”)
*pečьka (“oven (device)”)
*pečenь (“baking, something baked”)
*pečenъ (“baked”)
*pečьkъ (“fine, tiny, seared”)
*pečivo (“baked product, bread”)
*pečatь (“seal, stamp”) (partially)
*pečalь (“burden, sorrow”)
- *pečalьba (“gain”)
*pečurъka (“mushroom Agaricus”)

Related terms

*potъ (“sweat”)
*peťera (“cave”) (possibly)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: печи (peči)
  - Old Ruthenian: печи (peči), пекти (pekti)
    - Belarusian: пячы́ (pjačý), пекці́ (pjekcí)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: печі́ (pečí)
    - Ukrainian: пекти́ (pektý), печи́ (pečý)
  - Russian: печь (pečʹ)
- Old Novgorodian: пеци (peći)
  - Old Pskovian: пекти (pekti)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: пещи (pešti)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱂⰵⱋⰹ (pešti)
- Bulgarian: пека́ (peká)
- Macedonian: пече (peče)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пе̏ћи
  
  Latin script: pȅći
- Slovene: péči (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: péci, péct
- Polabian: pict
- Old Polish: piec
  - Polish: piec
  - Silesian: piyc
- Slovak: piecť
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: pjec
  - Lower Sorbian: pjac

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pektì”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 393
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “péči”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*peťi̋, sed. *pȅkǫ”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “pekti: pekǫ pečetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c bage (PR 139)”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pektì”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 393

[2] Snoj, Marko (2016) “péči”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*peťi̋, sed. *pȅkǫ”

[3] Olander, Thomas (2001) “pekti: pekǫ pečetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c bage (PR 139)”

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