With All Due Respect, on Slavic Abstracts in -y: The History of Proto-Slavic cěty 'respect' and Some Comparative Notes on its Congeners (ljuby 'love', cěly 'healing, greeting')*.

The scarcely attested Proto-Slavic * cěty * -ъve 'respect' appears to be a mostly overlooked member of the small class of abstracts in * -y * -ъve ; no precise accounts of the noun's origin have been proposed so far. Two complementary approaches are put forth in the article: 1) inheritance from a PIE animate s -stem * keyt-ōs >> * koyt-ōs (paralleling a recent analysis of * ljuby 'love' < PIE * lewb^h-ōs as well as its presumed secondary association with a verb in * -i-ti) or 2) inner-Slavic origin based on the formally similar * ljuby 'love' and * cěly 'healing (subst.)'. The study also offers novel analyses—based on hitherto unexploited philological and lexicographical data—concerning various related issues (e.g. the status of PSl nominal * cětъ , verbal * cětiti , and personal names in * Cěto/i- ; the adposition * cětja ; the semantic and pragmatic developments in * cěly 'greeting, kiss'; the secondary rise of masculine * cělovъ /* cělyvъ 'kiss') with the purpose of integrating the entirety of the material concerning the root * cět- and the abstract type in * -y * -ъve into coherent pictures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]