Where does “kaliti” come from?

kaliti (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Proto-Slavic kaliti, from Proto-Slavic -iti, from Proto-Indo-European -éyeti, from Proto-Indo-European -yeti — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

kaliti (Serbo-Croatian): to harden, temper

Definitions

  1. to harden, temper

Ancestry of “kaliti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavickalitito soil, muddle; to temper; to case-harden
2Proto-Slavic-itiDeverbal, iterative; Deverbal, causative;...
3Proto-Indo-European-éyetiForms causative imperfective verbs from roots;...
4Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

Words derived from “kaliti”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yeti →Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éyeti →Every word from Proto-Slavic -iti →
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