ęti

ęti Grammatical information: v. Proto-Slavic meaning: `take'

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Old Church Slavic:

jęti `take' [verb], imǫ [1sg] \{1\}

Church Slavic:

jati (RuCS) `take' [verb], imu [1sg]

Russian:

jat' (dial.) `take, begin' [verb]

Old Russian:

jati `take' [verb], imu [1sg]

Ukrainian:

játy `take' [verb], jmu [1sg]

Old Czech:

jieti `take' [verb], jmu [1sg]

Polish:

jąć `begin, (arch.) seize' [verb], imie [3sg]

Polabian:

jėmĕ `seize' [3sg]

Serbo-Croatian:

jéti `take' [verb], ìmēm [1sg] \{2\}

Slovene:

ję́ti `begin' [verb], jámem [1sg]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: imtei

Lithuanian:

im̃ti `take' [verb]

Latvian:

jem̃t (dial.) `take' [verb]

Old Prussian:

īmt `take' [verb]

Indo-European reconstruction: h₁m-

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Other cognates:

Lat. emere `take (in compounds), buy' [verb]

Notes:

\{1\} In compounds -ęti, -ьmǫ. \{2\} Also jȁmēm.