sęgnǫti

sęgnǫti Grammatical information: v. Proto-Slavic meaning: `reach for, attain'

Old Church Slavic:

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Russian:

sjagnút' (Dal') `reach for, attain' [verb]

Czech:

sáhnouti `touch, reach for' [verb]

Slovak:

siahnut' `reach for' [verb]

Polish:

sięgnąć `reach for, reach' [verb]

Serbo-Croatian:

ségnuti `reach' [verb];

sȅgnuti se (Vuk) `reach for' [verb]

Slovene:

sę́gniti `reach for' [verb], sę̑gnem [1sg]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: se(n)g

Comments: According to Kortlandt (1988: 389), the fact that Winter's law apparently did not operate in this verb is due to the cluster *-ngn-, which blocked the law.

Notes:

\{1\} Only prefixed verbs, e.g. prisęgnǫti (Supr.) `touch'.