стоꙗти

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stojati. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic стоꙗти (stojati) and Old Polish stać.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɔˈjɑti//stɔˈjatʲi//stɔˈjatʲi/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /stɔˈjɑti/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /stɔˈjatʲi/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /stɔˈjatʲi/

  • Hyphenation: сто‧ꙗ‧ти

Verb

стоꙗти (stojatiimpf (perfective стати)

  1. (intransitive) to stand
  2. (intransitive) to linger
  3. (intransitive) to be located; to be present
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik[1], page 4:
      и ꙗко же плѣньникомъ оумъ стоить оу родитель своихъ.
      i jako že plěnĭnikomŭ umŭ stoitĭ u roditelĭ svoixŭ.
      And just like to prisoners the thought is directed to their own parents.

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: стоꙗ́ти (stojáti)
  • Russian: стоя́ть (stojátʹ)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “стоꙗти”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 527