Where does “читати” come from?
читати (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Proto-Slavic čitati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic skait-, from Proto-Indo-European skey-, from Proto-Indo-European sek- — to cut, cut off, sever.
читати (Serbo-Croatian): to read
Ancestry of “читати”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Proto-Slavic | čitati | to read; to count |
| 2 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | skait- | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | skey- | to split, to dissect |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |