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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/běžati

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bēˀgjā́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰégʷ-y-eh₂-ti (innovative denominative present), from *bʰegʷ- (to flee, run).

Verb

*běžàti impf[1][2]

  1. to run, escape

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *běžьkati (to walk, run (of children))

Descendants

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*běžati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 92

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*běžàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 40:v. (c) ‘run, escape’
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “běžjǫ -ěti”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c run (PR 139)
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