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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/běliti

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 *bělъ + *-iti.

Verb

*běliti

  1. to whiten

Conjugation

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: бѣлити (běliti)
      • Belarusian: бялі́ць (bjalícʹ)
      • Russian: бели́ть (belítʹ)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: билїц (byljic)
      • Old Ukrainian: бѣлити (běliti)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: бѣлити (běliti)
      Glagolitic script: ⰱⱑⰾⰹⱅⰹ (běliti)
      • Church Slavonic (Russian recension): бѣлити (běliti)
    • Bulgarian: бе́ля (bélja)
    • Macedonian: бели (beli)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: бе́лити
      Latin script: béliti
    • Slovene: béliti
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: bělit
    • Polabian: belĕt
    • Polish: bielić
    • Slovak: bieliť
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: běliś
      • Upper Sorbian: bělić

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*běliti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 67
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