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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvastati

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

Per ESSJa, related to *xvostati. Vasmer opines it is onomatopoeic.

Verb

*xvastati (sę)[1]

  1. (reflexive) to boast, to brag

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: хваста́ць (xvastácʹ)
    • Russian: хва́стать (xvástatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: хва́стати (xvástaty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: хвастати (xvastati)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: хва̏стати
      Latin script: hvȁstati
    • Slovene: hvastáti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvastati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 121

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