Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/draskati

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.

Most likely from Proto-Slavic *drapъ (“scratch, trail”)/Proto-Slavic *drabъ (“spike; grazed cloth, rag”) + *-skati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *derH- (“to tear”). Possibly, also influenced by Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to beat, to grind”), in view of the derivative Russian дразга (drazga, “freckle”). Closely related to Lithuanian draskýti (“to tear apart”).

Trubachev also considers a direct derivation from Proto-Slavic *derti (“to tear”), as in the inchoative Ancient Greek ἀποδιδράσκω (apodidráskō, “to flee, to retreat”).

*draskàti impf (perfective *drasknǫti)^[1]

1. to scratch, to rub

   → (by extension) to draw, to engrave (on paper or another surface)

2. to dart, to spring

• *drabъ (“stair, spike”)
• *drapati (“to scratch, to scrabble”)
• *drasta (“track, trail, notch”)
• *draska (“notch, wreck”)

• *draščiti (“to scratch, to scrabble”)
• *draskotiti (“to scrabble”)
  • *draskotina (“scratch, graze”)
• *draskačь (“scraper, scribbler”)
• *draskanica (“scribble”)
• *draskolь (“tool for scrabbling”)

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: дра́скам (dráskam)
  • Macedonian: драска (draska)

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*draskati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 102
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “драскам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 421