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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grędnǫti

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

Alternative reconstructions

  • *grьmnǫti, *gręnǫti

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Possibly an inchoative of *gręsti (to approach, to step forwards) + *-nǫti. Vasmer draws comparison with Latin aggredior (to aggress).

Verb

*grędnǫti[1]

  1. to break out, to burst out

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: грѧнꙋти (gręnuti)
  • South Slavic:
    • >? Slovene: greníti (to rot) (more likely an iterative from *grěnь)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: hřanúti, hřenúti

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гря́нуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*grędnǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 123
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