Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xotěti

Etymology
From or related to. For semantics shift compare 🇨🇬 : 🇨🇬.

Reconstruction notes
Kortlandt suggests that the verb was generalized from the archaic optative (athematic and ablauting, with secondary endings). According to him, the indicative was innovated and was assigned fixed accent (ind. 1p. sg. *xòťǫ : 1p. pl. *xòťemъ) while the imperative, which continues the PIE optative, had the inherited mobile accent (imp. 1p. sg. *xȍťǫ : 1p. pl. *xoťímъ).

Verb

 * 1) to want, to wish
 * 2) to be about to

Conjugation
This verb is found in two variants, with and. The inflection probably contained both stems in alternation; however, the original distribution is disputed. In modern languages, the two stems are treated as separate lemmas.

In most languages levelled out into:

Descendants
West Slavic and Bulgarian, Macedonian have generalized the stem, while East Slavic has generalized. Ukrainian and Slovene preserve both as independent verbs, but only the latter form is standard and still widely used. Serbo-Croatian preserves both stems alternating within a single paradigm; possibly an archaism.


 * East Slavic:
 * South Slavic:
 * , (pres., , etc.; auxiliary , , etc.)
 * Latin:, (pres. , , etc.; auxiliary , , etc.)
 * West Slavic:
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * South Slavic:
 * , (pres., , etc.; auxiliary , , etc.)
 * Latin:, (pres. , , etc.; auxiliary , , etc.)
 * West Slavic:
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Latin:, (pres. , , etc.; auxiliary , , etc.)
 * West Slavic:
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Pomeranian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Sorbian: