Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/šibati

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.

Per Derksen, from Proto-Indo-European *ksweybʰ-. Cognate with Sanskrit क्षिपति (kṣipáti, “to swing, to throw”), Avestan 𐬑𐬱𐬎𐬎𐬌𐬡𐬭𐬀 (xšuuiβra), 𐬑𐬱𐬋𐬌𐬡𐬭𐬀 (xšōiβra, “fast, quick”), Old Norse sveipa (“to sweep, to swing”), Old English swāpan (“to sweep, to swing”), English sweep, swoop, Old High German sweifan (“to wind”).

*šibati

1. to whip

• *šȋbъkъ

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: шибати (šibati, “to beat, to hit”)
    • Belarusian: шыба́ць (šybácʹ)
    • Russian: шиба́ть (šibátʹ, “to throw, to hit”), 1sg. шиба́ю (šibáju); -шиби́ть (-šibítʹ, “to hit, to hurt”)
    • Ukrainian: шиба́ти (šybáty, “to throw”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: 3pl. impf. шибаахѫ (šibaaxǫ, “whipped”)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: ши́бам (šíbam, “to whip, to flog”)
  • Macedonian: шиба (šiba, “to whip, to flog”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ши̏бати (“to whip, to flog”), 1sg. ши̏ба̄м

    Latin: šȉbati (“to whip, to flog”), 1sg. šȉbām

  • Slovene: šíbati (“to whip, to flog”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. šȋbam (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: šibat
  • Polish: szybać
  • Slovak: šibať (“to beat”)
  • Sorbian:
    • ⇒ Upper Sorbian: šibały (“playful, roguish”)
    • Lower Sorbian: šyba (“broom, whipping cane”)

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ошиба́ться”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 613
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*šibati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 487
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шиба́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress