Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/debnǫti

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 *deběti (“to pray upon in stealth”) +‎ *-nǫti. Akin to dial. Serbo-Croatian дѐпсти (“to await for ambush”) and possibly dial. Russian дёб (djob, “edge, end”).

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰebʰ- (“to deceive, to humble”), presumably cognate with Sanskrit दभ्नोति (dabhnoti, “to damage”).

*debnǫti impf

1. to stalk, to await in stealth

• *jьzdebnǫti (“to prowl”)

• *deběti (“to pray upon”)
• *dъbati (“to look after, to account”) (possibly)

• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: *оудѣнѫти (*uděnǫti), оудѣбена (uděbena)^[1][2]
  • Bulgarian: де́бна (débna)
  • Macedonian: де́мне (démne), де́бне (débne) (dialectal)

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “дебна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 329
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*debnǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 204
• L. V. Kurkina (1978) “Изоглоссные связи южнославянской лексики. II”, in Этимология 1976, Moscow, page 24: “*deběti: болг. дѐба, -иш, дѐбна 'подстерегать, выслеживать', ..., макд. демне, дебне”