Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gъrkati
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
- ЭССЯ: Onomatopoeic.
- Derksen: cognate with Latin graculus (“daw, jackdaw”).
- Vasmer: onomatopoeia like in Sanskrit घुर्घुर (ghurghura, “growling”).
Verb
*gъrkati impf[1]
- to coo
Conjugation
Conjugation of *gъrkati, *gъrka, *gъrkajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *gъrkanьje | *gъrkati | *gъrkatъ | *gъrkalъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *gъrkanъ | *gъrkajemъ |
| Active | *gъrkavъ | *gъrkaję |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *gъrkaxъ | *gъrka | *gъrka | *gъrkajǫ | *gъrkaješi | *gъrkajetь |
| Dual | *gъrkaxově | *gъrkasta | *gъrkaste | *gъrkajevě | *gъrkajeta | *gъrkajete |
| Plural | *gъrkaxomъ | *gъrkaste | *gъrkašę | *gъrkajemъ | *gъrkajete | *gъrkajǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *gъrkaaxъ | *gъrkaaše | *gъrkaaše | — | *gъrkaji | *gъrkaji |
| Dual | *gъrkaaxově | *gъrkaašeta | *gъrkaašete | *gъrkajivě | *gъrkajita | — |
| Plural | *gъrkaaxomъ | *gъrkaašete | *gъrkaaxǫ | *gъrkajimъ | *gъrkajite | — |
See also
- *grakati (“to caw, croak”)
- *grajati (“to caw, croak”)
- *gъrgati
- *gъrgotati
Descendants
- Church Slavonic: гъркати (gŭrkati) (Russian)
- East Slavic: гъркати (gŭrkati)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “горкотать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gъrkati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 209
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gъrkati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 198: “v. ‘coo’”