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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grьměti

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 *grimēˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥m-eh₁-. Cognate with Lithuanian grumė́ti (to thunder, to roar), gruménti (to roar), Latvian gremt (to mutter), Old Prussian grumins (thunder), Proto-Germanic *grimmaną (to rage), *gramjaną (to provoke, anger), and possibly Ancient Greek χρεμίξω (khremíxō, to neigh).

Verb

*grьmě̀ti impf (frequentative *grimàti)[1][2]

  1. to thunder, to roar

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: грьмѣти (grĭměti), гремѣти (greměti)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: грьмѣти (grĭměti)
      Glagolitic: ⰳⱃⱐⰿⱑⱅⰻ (grĭměti)
    • Bulgarian: гърмя́ (gǎrmjá)
    • Macedonian: грми (grmi)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: гр̀мљети, гр̀мети
      Latin: gr̀mljeti, gr̀meti
    • Slovene: grmẹ́ti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: hřmieti
      • Czech: hřmít, hřmět
    • Polabian: gramăt
    • Old Polish: grzmieć
    • Slovak: hrmieť
    • Slovincian: grzmjêc

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “греметь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*grьměti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 163
  • Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “греметь”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*grьměti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 195:v. (c) ‘thunder, roar’
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “grьměti: grьmjǫ grьmitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c tordne (PR 139)
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