Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rěšiti

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

The exact Proto Balto-Slavic form is contested. Vasmer adduces Lithuanian raišýti, Lithuanian rišti, Lithuanian ryšys, Latin rica as cognates. If so, from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to twist, bend”).

Verb

*rěšiti

1. to untie
2. to solve

Inflection

Conjugation of *rěšiti, *rěši, *rěšitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*rěšenьje	*rěšiti	*rěšitъ	*rěšilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*rěšenъ	*rěšimъ
Active	*rěšь	*rěšę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*rěšixъ	*rěši	*rěši	*rěšǫ	*rěšiši	*rěšitь
Dual	*rěšixově	*rěšista	*rěšiste	*rěšivě	*rěšita	*rěšite
Plural	*rěšixomъ	*rěšiste	*rěšišę	*rěšimъ	*rěšite	*rěšętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*rěšaaxъ	*rěšaaše	*rěšaaše	—	*rěši	*rěši
Dual	*rěšaaxově	*rěšaašeta	*rěšaašete	*rěšivě	*rěšita	—
Plural	*rěšaaxomъ	*rěšaašete	*rěšaaxǫ	*rěšimъ	*rěšite	—

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рѣшити (rěšiti)
    • Old Ruthenian: рѣши́ти (rěšíti)
      • Belarusian: рашы́ць (rašýcʹ)
      • Ukrainian: ріши́ти (rišýty)
    • Russian: реши́ть (rešítʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: рѣшити (rěšiti)

    Glagolitic script: ⱃⱑⱎⰺⱅⰺ (rěšiti)

  • Bulgarian: реша́ (rešá)
  • Macedonian: реши (reši)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ре́шити; рије́шити

    Latin script: réšiti; rijéšiti

  • Slovene: rešīti, rẹ́šiti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: řešit (“to deal with; to discuss”)
  • Kashubian: rzeszëc (“to tie”)
  • ⇒ Old Polish: rozdrzeszyć, rozgrzeszyć, rozrzeszyć (“to absolve”)
    • Polish: rozgrzeszyć
  • Polabian: *resĕt
    • ⇒ Polabian: resenĕ
  • Slovak: riešiť

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “решить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress