Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/blǫditi

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *blándīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlondʰ-éye-ti, from *bʰlendʰ- (“to blend, mix up”). Cognate with Latvian bluôdîtiês (“to roam, be ashamed”), blàndîtiês (“to roam”), Lithuanian blandýtis (“to clear up, become cloudy, recover, roam”), Proto-Germanic *blandaną.

*blǭdìti impf^[1][2]

1. to err

• *blǫďati (“to wander”)
• *blǫdьnъ (“errant”)
• *blǫdьstvo (“whoredom”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: блѫдити (blǫditi)
    • Old Ruthenian: блуди́ти (bludíti)
      • Belarusian: блудзі́ць (bludzícʹ)
      • Ukrainian: блуди́ти (bludýty)
    • Russian: блуди́ть (bludítʹ)
  • Old Novgorodian: блодити (bloditi)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: блѫдити (blǫditi)

    Glagolitic script: ⰱⰾⱘⰴⰻⱅⰻ (blǫditi)

  • Bulgarian: блъдя́ (blǎdjá)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: блудити

    Latin script: bluditi

  • Slovene: blodíti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: blúditi
    • Czech: bloudit
  • Polabian: blǫdĕt
  • Old Polish: błądzić
    • Polish: błądzić
  • Slovak: blúdiť
  • West Slavic:
    • Kashubian: błãdzëc
    • Slovincian: blõdzëc
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: błuźiś
    • Upper Sorbian: błudzić

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*blǫditi”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 125
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “блъдам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 57