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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/daviti

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

Most West Slavic languages have intruded an unetymological *-l- to the onset of the root, probably influenced by the reflexes of Proto-Slavic *dolbiti (to carve).

Verb

*dāvìti impf[1][2][3]

  1. to press, to plunge
  2. (transitive) to throttle, to suffocate, to strangle
    Synonym: *dušiti
  3. (reflexive) (+ *) to drown, to choke

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *davežь
  • *davidlo
  • *udavьnikъ m, *udavьnica f (drowner)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: дави́ти (davíti)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: давити (daviti)
      Glagolitic script: ⰴⰰⰲⰺⱅⰺ (daviti)
    • Bulgarian: да́вя (dávja)
    • Macedonian: дави (davi)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: да́вити
      Latin script: dáviti
      • Chakavian (Vrgada): då̄vȉti
    • Slovene: dáviti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: dláviti
    • Kashubian: dławic
    • Polabian: dovĕ
    • Old Polish: dawić
    • Slovak: dáviť, dláviť
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: dawić, dajić
      • Lower Sorbian: dawiś, dajiś

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dāvìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 97:v. (b) ‘suffocate’
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “daviti: davjǫ davitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:b press (PR 137)
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016) “daviti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *davi̋ti

Further reading

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “дави́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 230
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дави́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*daviti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 198
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “давя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 313
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