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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/děgati

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 *daigtei, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ-.

Compare Lithuanian díegti (to prick(le)), Latvian diegt, diêgs, Lithuanian gíegas (sprout), dáigas.

Verb

*děgati impf

  1. to clinch
  2. to quarrel (+ *)

Conjugation

See also

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: дегати
      Latin script: degati
    • Slovene: degáti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Slovak: děgať
    • Polish: dziagać (dialectal)

References

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*děgati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 228
  • Pokorny 1959:383
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